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I know Why Our Universe Seems to Be Expanding When It

Should Be Getting Smaller

Even if we cannot look beyond our universe, we might still be able to detect signs of 

another universe if, sometime in the distant past, it came careering into ours, leaving

 behind vestiges of that crash for some wily observers to pick up on.- Steve Nadis, "When Universes Collide",  Discover , December 2012

To start, let's make it clear that no one knows the extent of our ownuniverse. We in the Milky Way galaxy are near one side of it. We only

estimate where we think the far side is (thus how big the universe is)

by measuring light that we believe travelled from its far side to reachus.

From this we also estimate the age of our universe (time since the Big

Bang) at 13.8 billion years. Did that light bend, as Einstein predicted,

on its long route? Would we have a way to tell if it did? Would bendingof the light (or other radiation) affect measurements? When calculating

distances, we tend to think of linear measurements, notmeasurements that bend.

If light from distant parts of the universe bends along its route, how

can we calculate linear dimensions of our universe? Is everything bent

consistently or does the bending vary from location to location? As youcan see, what we know for certain is far less than physicists would

have us believe by their confident statements.

By definition,"universe" should mean "everything that exists

anywhere." That is simply not enough any more. The imaginations of cosmologists and other physicists who study what is "out there" far

beyond what we can see or even detect, to learn more, have stretchedeven farther out.

M-theory, known more generally as String Theory, predicts that 11dimensions and multiple universes are possible. "Possible" because

these fit with the complicated and convoluted mathematics. (Inphysics, math rules. Anything that can't be proven by mathematics

tends to be denied as non-existent.)

It follows, within the theory if not within reality, that multiple

universes raise the possibility that two could collide. Or, as they aremostly composed of nothingness interspersed with a few trillions of 

stars and planets, one might pass right through another.

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If one universe were to pass through another, how might that playout? In general, there is so much space between stars that the

likelihood of one smashing into another is low. But not out of thequestion completely. Cars and trucks on highways are not supposed to

crash into each other either.

Might one smashup account for asteroids, or even planets, in our own

solar system? Might the various fields such as gravity be so upset thatstars might be pulled away so they paired up with other stars as

binary systems?

Physicists have calculated that this long after the Big Bang our

universe should be coming back together, contracting, due to theslowing down of the stretching and the influence of gravity and

perhaps other forces that want to bring the universe back to a unity.

But that is not happening. Our universe is mysteriously expanding still,

even faster than ever before, except during the first short period of time after the Big Bang. Physicists have conjectured dark matter

(dubious evidence so far) and dark energy (still mostly in theimagination) to account for the mystery.

We know that matter of the kind we know is subject to laws of physics,such as gravity and centrifugal force. But dark matter supposedly need

not be confined by such laws. Disconnect, illogical, right? And whatkind of matter would not reflect light, at all? We don't even have any

evidence that dark matter has a gravitational effect on the matter weare more familiar with.

Using the Kepler observatory/telescope in space, astronomers can nowlocate planets in distant star systems. But the system has so far not

been able to identify anything that could be called dark matter. So far

the hundreds of planets they have located are ordinary star satellitesthat reflect light, but the light can't be seen because it is too dim and

they planets are too far away.

What if, millions of years ago, two universes began to pass througheach other? We can't see the far side of our own universe. What wecan see and measure seems to be expanding rather that contracting.

What is more, it seems to be accelerating its expansion, not slowingdown.

What if the expansion physicists are measuring is really the other

universe moving away from our own? Our universe could have slowed,

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stopped or reversed direction, while the other universe gives theimpression that the whole is expanding. We couldn't tell because we

look at so little of it at one time. Could physicists tell the differencebetween evidence from two different universes if they saw it? Or might

they just use mathematics to devise some other explanation they can

accept because it fits their belief set?

Not likely they could differentiate one universe from another. Amajority of physicists still prefer to believe that only one universe

exists, our own. Why not consider other possibilities?

Job security. Academics put their positions at risk when they publicly

support any suggestion that goes against the tide of theestablishment. Remember how the careers of Stanley Pons and Martin

Fleischmann imploded after they revealed they had successfully

created power by cold fusion in 1989, but others later found it couldnot using the same method? (Today cold fusion is being studied and

explored frantically in many labs and facilities around the world.)

Let me leave you with this. Might a second universe passing throughour own account for ghosts, reports of space aliens, experiences of 

people in different dimensions and many other phenomena we can't

explain?

Bill Allin is the author of Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems, a guidebook for parents and

teachers who want their children to grow balanced lives, not skewedby over-emphasis on intellectual or physical development.Learn more at http://billallin.com