The truth is that the Universe is not round, but square and the Earth is flat.
Actually they’re both inside out.
Well, I know the Universe is not "round", and very strongly doubt it is "square". But I think the scientific cosmologists are correct to say it is "flat."
The Earth itself, however, is "round." Or rather, "roundish." We speak of it as being a "sphere".... [But of course that is incorrect: a sphere is a mathematical object.]
It's also true that the "flat" universe is expanding, or "inflating." And that the speed of the inflation has been increasing in recent times. (The inflation rate has varied historically.) Which I find fascinating. Why is it doing that?
Got any ideas?
It seems to me this inflation would rule out Boom-and-Bust and Bouncing Universes physical cosmologies, which are premised on an eternal universe model. I.e., on a model that rules out a beginning in time.
I wonder whether it is correct to say that an inflating state is moving from a state of higher to lower entropy, Or to use TXnMA's analogy, it may be "correcting" for a general universal increase of isotropy.
Just wondering where the "bust" mode of the Boom-and-Bust multiverse theory gets its energy from to transform a state of very high entropy to a state of very low entropy [please see TXnMA's graphic of isotropy and anisotropy above. The first, the isomorphic illustration is a state at very high entropy. The second, the anisotrophic, depicts a state at comparatively low entropy.
So, how does the "bust" phase of the Universe bootstrap itself into the next "boom" phase? What is the cause? The Bouncing Universes model has the same problem.
The Eternal Universe megamodel, and its exemplars, is based on the desire to obviate the essential need of a beginning of the universe. For the very idea of a "beginning" of something logically implicates the cause of that something. It suggests more: that the cause is effected by an intelligence, for a purpose. Or at least, according to Aristotle....
And so, on that basis, I have to say that Genesis 1 is the superior cosmology, by far. It accounts for so much more, and is ever so much more internally consistent and coherent, than other more fashionable scientific cosmologies in currency today.
Though the theory of the Big Bang/Singularity comes awesomely close....
Thank you so much, UCANSEE2, for writing.