Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ...
by thom on Thursday January 12, 2023 @08:24PM
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I think it’s actually quite a simple model to think of the universe as a network of discrete nodes, rather than a spatial thing that’s expanding and within which various things are accelerating. It makes the Big Bang simpler - we start from a small number of nodes and they grow in number, so we don’t need to think about what the universe is expanding ‘into’. And it explains expansion - nodes can divide like mitosis, so we don’t need to explain some force pushing things apart.
The likelyhood that we'll figure this out in my lifetime is zero, but I simply can't comprehend a universe that accelerates without cause (dark energy) infinitely.
Just as we don't understand the root causes of dark energy, I believe it's just as logical to believe that something will eventually slow it down.
I have to believe that because only a cyclical theory of the universe makes sense to me. It's my faith, I suppose.
The more depressing part to me isn't that I'll never know, but rather it's entirely possible HUMANITY can never know, any more than an ant can know about General Relativity.