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That's not bizarre, that would be a brilliantly simple explanation of a bizarre phenomena. My brain hopes it's true, but has many questions. I guess the key que
by tybris 17y ago
That's not bizarre, that would be a brilliantly simple explanation of a bizarre phenomena. My brain hopes it's true, but has many questions. I guess the key question is a pretty old one: what determines time?
Anyway, assuming this is true should be an interesting thought experiment. If time is slowing down universally we shouldn't notice a difference (relativity). The suggestion seems to be that time is going slower in our older part of the universe than it is around the "edges". Making it seem to an observer in an older part like the expansion is going faster and faster, despite the fact that no energy is being added. This also seems to suggest there should be (even older) parts of the universe for which the perceived acceleration is negative. I wonder whether that's the case. A tricky bit is that if they are in fact moving towards us and we're moving away from them at a faster time pace, they would still appear to be moving away from us at an accelerating rate.
Another question is what would be the difference between those parts of the universe. One might argue that the older galaxies that have attracted more time-slowing mass, but that's shaky. Another idea might be that the speed of time is driven by the amount of active energy itself. Perhaps a new definition of entropy would help us there.
Hoping to hear more.