Our Universe

We are getting better and better at discovering planets outside our solar system. As our instruments get ever more powerful, the race toward discovering these heavenly bodies will gather speed. Why are scientists so hot for this relatively new field? They feel that if they can find a planet that is about the same size as earth, is about the same distance from a star, that is about the same size as ours and the atmosphere is composed of about the same gases and water exists, that this is almost as good as finding life itself and the chance for life to exist on such a place is favorable. One of the huge problems is that we can not detect life from here on one of these planets, even if it exists. The chances of traveling to such a planet is still very far off, because of the speeds that we would have to attain, among other things.

All The Galaxies And Clusters Are Heading Toward This Purple Patch
Graphic Source: NASA/WMAP/A. Kashlinsky et al.

There are exceptions to the above type of standards. If a star is bigger than ours, then the distance from it could be further out and that planet could still be in what is known as the Sweet Spot. The Sweet Spot is where the scientists suspect the habitable zone for life would be located. By the same reasoning, if a star is smaller than our sun, then the Sweet Spot could start much closer to that star. This is all conjecture of course. We could be like the blind leading the blind in this instance. The reason that I say this, is that we are basing the model for life on our own planet. I know that we have nothing else to base it on at the moment, but we should not rule out the fact that life may not only be based on different elements than found on earth, but even water might not be necessary to sustain life. It might even turn out that life on our type of planet is rarer that life on a different type of world.

Hot Exoplanet
Graphic Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

We just do not know enough about life and we won't, until we begin to discover it on other planets or even living in space, which almost everyone now thinks is impossible. To prove how little we know about the universe, scientists are just now conceding that there is a force somewhere out in space that is pulling all the galaxies and clusters toward it and that is why the universe is expanding. I hate to blow my own horn, but I have been saying that this was possible for years. Is this force some huge mass of matter that might be even bigger than our entire universe? Maybe, but it could also be some unknown force that is more like some type of energy. I believe that we have not discovered all there is to see in the universe. We are going to continue to discover objects that we had not known about before and maybe even different types of energy.

Scientist are calling whatever is pulling us, the Dark Flow. It seems the the entire universe that we know is headed toward a 20 degree patch of space between the constellations of Centaurs and Vela. We don't know what is there waiting for us. It is estimated to be over 46 billion light years away, but some see this as only an educated guess. When I look at the universe and take everything into consideration, I can't help but feel that what we think is the universe is only a tiny piece of it and we are being pulled back to the whole. What I mean is and I know I will catch it from scientists for what I am about to say, the entire theory of the Big Bang and such is completely wrong. I think a better theory would have been that the universe is infinite. This hurts our heads to think about, because the human brain can not conceive of anything that goes on forever. I think that this infinite universe may have had some event that shot a very tiny piece off of itself and that is what we now think is the universe, but the pull of the real universe is so strong because of all its matter that it is drawing the tiny piece, us, back to join up with itself.

Einstein
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I am sorry Einstein, if I have offended you. I am but a mere mortal and not even a scientist, so not many, if any, people will ever pay attention to what I have proposed. Scientists will laugh at what I said and some readers will say that I do not have the credentials to even put forth such a theory. They are right, I do not have the credentials, but why is this theory any more ridiculous than some that have given by scientists? Remember the osculating universe theory? That said that the universe expands and contracts and only considered the universe to be 13.7 billion light years old. Yet scientists are now stating that it is about 46.5 billion light years to the farthermost edges of the universe. If the universe is only 13.7 billion light years old, how did it go from one giant atom before the big bang out to 46.5 billion light years away, when Einstein stated that breaking the light speed barrier is impossible? Is Einstein wrong, or are the calculations of the size of the universe wrong?

Even if the edges of this super atom were 5 billion light years from here before the big bang, they still would have had to break the light speed barrier to get where they supposedly are today. So here we have it, either the universe is not the size we think, light speed can be broken, there was no big bang, we were blown out from where we are heading back to, or some other factors are at work here. We are like children when it comes to the knowledge of the universe. Oh there are those that think that they are advanced, because we are learning more and more every day from our space probes and satellites, but I would like to ask them this, can they guarantee that the space in our solar system and the planets and moon therein are composed exactly the same as what we might find in other distant star systems. If they say yes, because physics is the same through out the universe, I would have to say that we really don't know this for sure until we try some tests in these other places and that we only think that this is the case. For all we know, some of those distant stars could be in other dimensions.

I can't help but think that it is too dangerous for scientists to believe that they know things for sure, just because they are true in our local area of space. I have heard that scientists are building a computer model to see what is pulling our universe. The problem with that is you can only get an answer using the data that is supplied to the computer. If it is incomplete and it has to be, then the answer will be incomplete or incorrect.