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How old is the universe...? And, How big is the universe...? Discussion...?

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When you're in a hole, it's best to stop digging.

A surface is not one-dimensional. A line is one-dimensional. The surface of an inflated balloon is a curved surface, so three-dimensional. Geometry 101.

And yet your dots on it's surface all lie on a single plane, with none below....

It is why no model can be made to show expansion..... nor can any experiment ever be conceived of to test it......

You are the one that keeps ignoring the blue shift of the CMB because the hole is too deep.
 
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If the analogy is with the universe, there is no edge,

I was just saying "if there were" theoretically...

With the picture I'm trying to paint of nigh perpetual universe, and what would happen "theoretically" with the dark pockets or areas we see with a picture of the universe, would happen there at a theoretical edge, "theoretically" speaking...

and from every location it looks like you're at the centre.

At least we agree here...

God Bless!
 
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Not if, or unless, it didn't start with a big bang and won't ever end in a big crunch... If it started in a "static state" and was "set in motion" by someone or something...


The normal matter can move around the, what we think are dark matter bubbles or areas like bubbles in water or a glass, (or in a lava lamp as it happening very slowly) except the bubbles would be all each growing slightly over time and as they moved toward a theoretical edge, but not growing and or expanding so much, or not causing such an expansion, that the normal matter tending to being pulled in on itself (the rest of the normal matter, but around the dark pockets) by gravity...? It's possible they could be in a perpetual balance or state with those two forces, with the "entire universe" never really ever getting any bigger or smaller, but all of it (always) (perhaps always was as well) moving and/or in motion, kind of like a perpetual "dance"...


That is kind of the problem, none of this works really if we assume the big bang is true or is how the universe really started... (And, no, I don't know how it all started either) (It's just looking less and less like a big bang is all)...

Observation of the curvature of space suggests that our universe is a flat as we're capable of measuring, and if it wasn't for the accelerating expansion force of dark energy, it's expansion would slow to a stop in the infinite future.

But it wouldn't, and I would say doesn't either...

As it is, its accelerating expansion will continue indefinitely.

It's not expanding so much or so fast that it ever becomes "out of balance" with the force of gravity, ever... It does not end in big crunch, and it may not have even started with a big bang either... It does not, and is really not ever getting any bigger or smaller ever...

It only appears that way to us... because, as you agreed with me that from "wherever you are in it" it appears you are the center, but your not, cause it would appear that way anywhere, so, is "any of it really moving away from anything else", or is it all "relative"...

Distant objects seem to moving away from us faster than objects closer to us, but nothing is really moving away from, or any faster or slower (rate) (away from/towards, whatever) than anything else (is).. It's all expanding, equally, everywhere, only it might not all really be expanding either, not really... Because the dark pockets are all each growing (causing the expansion) at the same rate everywhere, and it might all be happening everywhere rather "slowly" everywhere, and then, the force of gravity trying to pull everything back in direct proportion to that...?

It would make for a nigh perpetual universe that is neither really growing or expanding, nor ever really getting any bigger or smaller, maybe "ever"... And may have not begun or began with any kind of big bang at all either...

This creates a kind of "dance" that never stops and is nigh perpetual... Can you see it yet...?

God Bless!
 
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If I didn't know better I thought I was being responded to by a random sentence generator given that none of your responses bear any resemblance to the quotes given.
I understand you are desperately trying to convey the impression of intelligence but even a random sentence generator wouldn't construct sentences such as "Please, a balloon surface is one dimensional".

What is even more pitiful is your defence of this statement blissfully unaware you are a making a "spectacle" of yourself in the process.
 
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It's well accepted that the Standard Model is incomplete - quite a few observations don't seem to fit; but it remains the standard model because it explains so much more than the few exceptions, and does it so much better than rival models.

All that has nothing to do with an observer always appearing to be at the centre of expansion.

With Fairie Dust....
Nope; that's your manic trope.

You're confusing me with someone else. The dark matter phenomenon is a fascinating puzzle, and I'm curious to know the cause, but it's just one of many mysteries in life; if I obsessed over any of them the way you seem to obsess over your 'Fairie Dust', I'd be concerned about my mental balance.
 
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And yet your dots on it's surface all lie on a single plane, with none below....
Red herring. What's below the surface or above it, is irrelevant to the balloon analogy.

Btw, a plane is a flat surface, not a curved surface; geometry 101.

It is why no model can be made to show expansion...
Have you never seen a balloon being inflated? That's a model of expansion.
 
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I have no idea; how could there be an edge? an edge with what?
 
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Not if, or unless, it didn't start with a big bang and won't ever end in a big crunch... If it started in a "static state" and was "set in motion" by someone or something...
Sure; you can make up any hypothetical universe you like - but I can't read your mind, so I can't help you with that.

Fine - but what is the point of this imaginative exercise?

... This creates a kind of "dance" that never stops and is nigh perpetual... Can you see it yet...?
I can see that you've described an imaginary - and rather confused - universe quite unlike our own, but why?
 
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It's not but "whatever"...

If you'd get outside the box of what you've been taught and indoctrinated in, you'd see it too...

We must question everything to arrive at truth...

And this is rather simple...

In time what I am saying will be proven (real, true, actual, ect, fact)...

But I guess I will have to wait, I guess...

God Bless!
 
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The Great Attractor is local in the bigger scheme of things - given our observations of the curvature of space, the whole universe must be at least 15 million times larger than the observable universe.

And if that is the case, how far away would the supposed origin of the supposed big bang, or single center or origin point of it (the universe) have to be...?

And how could it be that far away, and the universe only be 13.8 billion years old...?

God Bless!
 
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@FrumiousBandersnatch, If we appear to always be the center no matter where we are in the universe, then that has to be wrong, right...? Cause that is not how the expanding of it, or expansion of it is actually happening and/or really looks like either...

So, what would be the "real picture" not taken from that or those points of view or perspectives in it...? If you could look from outside of it, (or above it, or whatever) instead of inside of it, what would it look like...?

God Bless!
 
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Red herring. What's below the surface or above it, is irrelevant to the balloon analogy.

Have you never seen a balloon being inflated? That's a model of expansion.

It isn't irrelevant. Since in reality galaxies must exist all the way to the center of the balloon..... Else there would be a void in two directions, which is not observable, and so your dots on a surface of a balloon fail miserably to reflect reality.....

Sure I've seen one blown up, and the air molecules inside do not all expand away from one another......
 
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Their own science has already falsified their belief of a universe that looks the same everywhere. They just can't or won't admit to it...

ESA Science & Technology: Hemispheric asymmetry and cold spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background

"An asymmetry in the average temperatures on opposite hemispheres of the sky [...] with slightly higher average temperatures in the southern ecliptic hemisphere and slightly lower average temperatures in the northern ecliptic hemisphere. This runs counter to the prediction made by the standard model that the Universe should be broadly similar in any direction we look. There is also a cold spot that extends over a patch of sky that is much larger than expected."

Observations actually run counter to the prediction made by their model. Backed up by the Sloan Digital Survey as well.


All they can do is repeatedly try to hand wave the data away, because it fails to fit their model that they have invested so much time in. A failed model that they refuse to give up and look for the correct model.....

Not a single shred of data supports their belief that the universe looks the same from any place. NOT A SINGLE PIECE OF DATA. It is pure belief against the data and in spite of it.....
 
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Which picture is accurate, the one you show, or this one (below)...?

Which one accounts for everything that needs to accounted for to show an accurate image or picture of the known universe...?

 
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And if that is the case, how far away would the supposed origin of the supposed big bang, or single center or origin point of it (the universe) have to be...?

And how could it be that far away, and the universe only be 13.8 billion years old...?
There was no centre or origin point, it wasn't like an explosion. The whole universe (whether finite or infinite) expanded; all of it, everywhere, expanded.

The observable universe was a very small part of the whole expanding universe, but it was no more the centre than anywhere else.
 
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There was no centre or origin point, it wasn't like an explosion. The whole universe (whether finite or infinite) expanded; all of it, everywhere, expanded.

But the Big Bang theory states and assumes it all does, and is, and has been happening and all happening, all started with something that was very much like an explosion causing the expansion, theoretically, or according to that theory, but what is really happening and what we really (now see) is the dark area pockets having been all each growing at a steady and constant, but very slow rate, (relatively speaking), and all are "pushing out on each other an everything else", (normal matter and material/us) "equally" from everywhere, and (that) is the cause of the "apparent acceleration of apparent expansion" that might not even be happening, since, for or from our points of view/perspectives, our picture (of it/the universe) is all "relative" (to where we are in it, looking at from within it, ect)...

Then you have to account for gravity/magnetism in it as well, for the normal matter and material, again, perhaps making it all perpetual..

The observable universe was a very small part of the whole expanding universe, but it was no more the centre than anywhere else.

So what does the real picture of it all in motion "look like"...?

God Bless![/QUOTE]
 
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Yes; we're not really at the centre, there is no centre; it just looks that way because (in general) everything is moving away from us in all directions, but that's true for any location.

So, what would be the "real picture" not taken from that or those points of view or perspectives in it...? If you could look from outside of it, (or above it, or whatever) instead of inside of it, what would it look like...?
For an observer in the universe, there are no other perspectives, there's no 'outside', the universe is all there is. If you consider an origin theory like Inflation Theory, our universe is one of many 'pocket' universes generated by the local decay of a 'false vacuum' in a greater eternally inflating metastable universe. What it might look like from that perspective is something you'd have to ask Alan Guth, who formulated the idea, but I suppose it might look like a black hole, or it might become 'pinched off' and not appear there at all.
 
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That's a gross distortion of the current model. The big bang wasn't an explosion, it was a universal exponential scalar expansion of space. I don't know what you mean by 'dark area pockets' but space is expanding everywhere and gravity is holding things like galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters of galaxies together for now.

Then you have to account for gravity/magnetism in it as well, for the normal matter and material, again, perhaps making it all perpetual..
Gravity tends to pull matter together, magnetism isn't relevant at cosmological scales. I don't know what you mean by 'perhaps making it all perpetual...' It's a non-sequitur.

So what does the real picture of it all in motion "look like"...?
Clumps of matter are moving further apart in all directions at ever increasing speed.
 
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