I had to take a quick shower today since I hit the snooze button about 6 times before getting out of bed. I had a crazy dream that night that got me thinking a little bit beyond our planet. No, no aliens involved.
Operating under the assumption that the universe expands and contracts with very indefinite (or infinite) outer bounds, would it be possible that every singular object within the universe was expanding or contracting at the same rate? That is, that while our actual volume changes, the scale remains exactly the same.
I may have graduated with an engineering degree, but most of the information from science classes no longer reside in my brain. I do know however that there is some evidence showing that the distance between a finite number of objects is increasing, and that our planet is actually getting farther away from other objects (like stars and galaxies) as time goes on. I guess this is really the same sort of theory, but with density. At the beginning of time (?) the universe was a single point with infinite density. As the universe expanded it’s volume increased exponentially and the universe became less and less dense as time passed.
I personally think this would be way more fun.
August 1, 2008 at 6:28 pm |
Of course the entire universe expands and contracts at the same time. I discuss this at length on my website: http://www.ejdoscher.com .