Aha!
I knew it!
Damn the neutrinos, full speed ahead!
Interesting ping.
BTTT.
Here is an email I wrote on May 28 of this year:
Hey,
OK, about ten years ago, I had fantasies that I was a good cosmological theorist, with deep, penetrating understanding of the cosmos.
So I mucked around with the standard universal constants and plain old physical models and derived the following equation:
Mu = (8 Pi/3)(C cubed Tu/G)
where Mu is the mass of the universe, Tu is the age, C is the speed of light, and G is the universal constant of gravitation.
I even wrote it on a slip of paper and hung it over my desk at work hoping, I don't know, maybe people would bow when they passed me or something.
So, the other night, I'm reading a short treatise, and Lo! and Behold! and whatever else, here it comes, on page 2:
a = CTu = 2GMu / C squared !!!!!! (1)
Yay!!
Not that it's all that important, but what it means is: The mass of the universe is growing linearly with the time, but the volume is growing as the cube of the time, so the density is falling as the square of the time. It basically means it's getting bigger and fatter but in a weird way, kind of evaporating.
But don't start packing yur bags or getting your knickers in a knot, it will take trillions of years.
So I'm writing this note to brag a little, after all, I beat them stupid russkies by six years, and they even forgot the right coefficient to determine the volume of a sphere!
Too much vodka, I guess.
References
(1) Dimensionless constants of the fundamental physical interactions viewed by the model of expansive nondecelerative universe
Sima, Sukenik, Sukenikova
Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia 1999
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1991Ap%26SS.178..169S
http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/abs/gr-qc/9910094
Now three University of Washington physicists are suggesting the two discoveries are integrally linked through one of the strangest features of the universe, dark energy, a linkage they say could be caused by a previously unrecognized subatomic particle they call the "acceleron."
Dark energy was negligible in the early universe, but now it accounts for about 70 percent of the cosmos.
And that's the only introduction it gives us to "dark energy". Nothing about what it actually is or believed to be, only the fact that there's a lot more of it now than in the old days. As if that helps elucidate anything.
And 70% by what standard of measurement? Volume? Weight? Mojo? I just wish they'd throw us a bone once in awhile.
Nutrino! This isn't your mothers ether!
So the big crunch could occur eventually afterall. Just further out in time than some have imagined.
btt
When in doubt, introduce a new particle. That's how I myself was invented.
We're all gonna die because of the entropic heat-death of the universe represented, in a macroscopic sense, by (delta)S = Q/T where Q is heat added to a thermodynamic system during a reversible process at absolute temperature T !!!!