I've posted this question in a Swedish forum but have gotten no good answer.
A giant thorn in the side of science today, is the fact that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. They key word here is accelerating.
Because if it all began with a Big Bang, which it certainly did, (there is an insane amount of evidence for this), the expansion of the universe should be slowing down.
It should be slowing down since all that force came some 14 billions years ago, and have been dissipating ever since. Gravity has been pulling everything together during this time, too.
To explain this accelerated expansion, which has been verified by empirical data, we invented dark energy (almost wrote dark matter there, pew!). Dark energy is suppose to "push" the universe apart through some unkown mechanism.
Dark energy is all hypothetical and was only invented to explain the data. I have another explanation.
What if there isn't just "a" Big Bang, that is "one" Big Bang, but many Big Bangs, going off in the sky constantly. Like fireworks.
What if our entire visible universe (14 billion light years) is part of one of these local Big Bangs.
What if our entire visible universe is surrounded by other (will be) Big Bangs, overlapping each other, collecting mass to THEIR Big Bang right now.
And our universe is being pulled apart like a parent tugged at by five different kids.
Get what I'm saying?
The deeper an organization of mass is in its contraction phase, the stronger pull it will exert, and the more mass it will collect.
"The Great Attractor" would be one such collection of mass.
- This would explain the accelerated expansion.
- It would explain the observed phenomenom that the expansion isn't equal in all directions.
- It would make the Big Bang theory make sense, since now you have a cycle (and an infinite number of attempts to create life)
Do you understand my argument?
I think there are a bunch of "Big Bangs" spread throughout space, overlapping each other, competing for the same mass, and that we (our visible universe) is being pulled apart in all directions.
It seems logical to me. Have I missed something?
/Theo A. Gerken