Posted on 08/02/2013 1:05:34 AM PDT by lbryce
Thanks for posting that info on the Great Attractor. That was new news to me and so it was very interesting. I have never been a big fan of inflation theory so anything that brings that particular idea into question is always of interest.
One thing it suggests is that 'inflation' was something cobbled together to try to shoehorn current theories into something somewhat closer to reality.
Inflation has always seemed like so much hand-waving to me.
Actually it was both :)
If anyone here is interested in a good read explaining the physics and offering an explaination for the Great Attractor, Stephen Baxtor has a series of novels about this phenomenon: “Ring”, “Flux”, and “Vacuum Diagrams”. or “ Xeelee: An Omnibus: Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, Ring by Stephen Baxter (2010)” “Vacuum Diagrams” offers more detail.
I was thinking maybe Thursday would be better...
Maybe the vacuum of space , and the density of that vacuum, is not constant.
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