[ExI] Weird New Physics Update

[The Avantguardian]

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>From: BillK <pharos at gmail.com>
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 1:28 AM
>Subject: Re: [ExI] Weird New Physics Update
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>2012/1/4 The Avantguardian wrote:
>> This repulsion of unaligned vortices, in the absense of an ordering
>> gravitational field results in the constant expansion of "flat" space which
>> is high-entropy space time. This mutual repulsion of space-time voticons may
>> be the Hubble expansion, cosmological constant, cosmic inflation, dark
>> energy phenomenon, etc. Indeed the universe itself seems to be a gigantic
>> vortex of space time spinning in all three spatial directions at once about
>> the proper time axis of the universe. The Hubble expansion is the
>> centrifugal force of the spinning universe and the Hubble constant (not a
>> constant but changing over time) is simply the angual velocity of the
>> universe, and it is slowing down as the universe spreads out like a spinning
>> ice skater extending her arms.
>>
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>The universe expansion rate appears to be increasing.
>The 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
>were both awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G.
>Riess for the 1998 discovery of the accelerating expansion of the
>Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_universe>

Yes. The radial expansion of space is accelerating but in the process, the angular velocity is slowing down. Think in terms of orbits where tighter orgits are faster and bigger orgits are slow. When you accerate outward it is at the cost of tangental velocity.

Stuart LaForge


“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -Clay Shirky