RE: Are we thinking about the big bang all wrong?
Reminds me of Endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi transport. But more like vesicles from one compartment are fusing into another, unidirectionally. So, if I think of space as lipids and galaxies as proteins or even those lipid rafts as galaxies then adding new vesicles should make the compartment expand. The distance between the embedded proteins should increase. Except there is one issue, unless the frequency of adding lipids is homogenous in all directions, we should not have a homogenous expansion. Say space gets added between two galaxies by this new baby universe. Then these two galaxies should accelerate faster compared to those other galaxies far away. If space was compressible then this would lead to these two galaxies moving away from each other at accelerated rate while others moving closer. If non compressible then the nearby galaxies have increased rate of expansion but far away galaxies keep moving at the same pace. That is obviously assuming that addition and spread of space has finite speed. So in case of non homogenous addition of baby universes the only way your model can work is if addition of space at any points spreads through out the universe at infinite velocity. Well, that is because the cosmological constant is assumed to be constant through out the universe. And it's observed that no matter which direction we look into the rate of acceleration is the same. Also, let me forward this ro my astrophysics friends who are not on steem.
There is no velocity to the warping of spacetime. Spacetime is conformed to the existence of the forces in it exigently. Since we perceive time and space differently, like we do hot dogs and buns, we see this conformance as occurring at infinite velocity, which, incidentally, is faster than I can eat hot dogs.
This is a complex thought process and makes me re-consider the idea of infinite points. I wonder about the infinite velocity though. Space can accelerate away from us faster than the speed of light, simply because there's more than one direction.
If we had multiple points moving away at lightspeed, then the velocity compounds to something far beyond lightspeed, no?
Would be great to get your buddies involved!
If lightspeed is constant, and the distance between origin and destination increases due to spontaneous eruption of space between them, then lightspeed would appear to slow to observers keeping an eye on it. But it's not space that erupts - it's spacetime.
Since speed is a function of both time and space, lightspeed appears constant because both time and space are actually one thing. Although the light now has more space to traverse, it also has more time to traverse it. The speed of light remains constant.