I reterate AUKs post that is the second post on page one of ths thread.Godfree wrote:"All Galaxies are moving towards their nearest or most powerful Galaxy"
We have examples of the mechanics of the universe ,
with our solar system , the biggest object drawing all other objects towards it,
we can then see the same process on a galactic scale ,
a black hole at the center drawing in the stars and planets ,
and as you would expect in such a model ,
more dense towards the middle , and sparce at the outer edges,
So why wouldn't the universe look like this ,??
dense in the middle and less dense at the outer edge,
why wouldn't the same process exist doing the same thing just on a universal scale ,,???
The answer appears to be , because the universe is not expanding ,,!!!
there was no big bang , and the rate of expansion is even more of a joke,
the only evidence I can find for the expansion theory,
is Hubbles tired old Red shift
which is no proof at all ,
so if you know of any other proof , bring it on ,,,???
And add:
If we are talking science then I probably have as little to say as Godfree has.
If we are talking philosophy then I might have a little more -
The idea that there is or will be a knowable actual beginning of the universe is rediculous. For when or if we were to find a 'beginning', or 'end' or 'edge', for that matter, we would necessarily have found at least something 'before' or 'after' or 'on the other side' by which to have our 'beginning'. This means that we would have found no actual beginning but merely a 'beginning' situated in defintion, which means knowledge. Our unviverse, in finding its 'beginning' would become another proverbial 'thing in itself', a whole dstingushed in relation to another identifed thing that we would call 'before the beginnng'.
Presently, our 'human being' is still informed by a ubquitous 'all' that we call the universe, and thereby conflated to meaning for our exstance, equates to cosmological justification, and so our beginning was equivocal to a point, a Big Bang.
So our way of describing the universe is changing correspondantly with the way we have to accomodate of world of humanity with varying ideas religions and ideologies. There thus, right now, no seeable one way to come upon reality, thus our 'scientific' explanation, the data and the interpretation, reflects our human condition at every turn and the idea that there is One beginning point of an expanding universe is fading, just as humanity seems to not be expanding as much as it has stalled for its newness. 'Bubbles' of 'identity centered' realities existing together, stagnant in their individual self righteous freedom.
I am sure, that as humanity works the variation of human experience into an encompassing explanation, again we will have another emergent scientific explanation that poses a Point beginning.