[ExI] Who's stealing our universe?

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:37 PM 9/25/2008 -0700, Damien S wrote:

> > Very interesting post from Lee. The part in the original claim that I
> > don't understand is how the gravitation of Vast amounts of clumped
> > matter spacelike separated from (outside the lightcone of) the
> > visible universe could possibly be affecting us?
>
>AIUI, it's outside the lightcone of our part of the visible universe.
>Not outside the part that we see being influenced.

What we now see being influenced near our horizon reaches us by light 
that takes the same time to get here as the gravitational influence 
allegedly acting on those objects, so we should be experiencing the 
same influence, no? Well, suitably attenuated by inverse square 
diminution. I agree that this quickly gets out of hand for intuition 
unaided by elaborate mathematical analysis.

Damien Broderick