The meteor shower the other night was a lot of fun. Got me thinking on an old topic again.
It seems so simple and so obvious?
Ok, imagine you are inside the event horizon of the 'big bang' really tiny compressed spot.
Say it's a Tuesday at 12:01. At 12:02, BANG. At 12:03, you're on the other end of the cosmos.
So is a lot of matter, energy, light, gravity, all sorts of things that didn't exisit,
and whose properties were undefined a minute ago.
Let's say I'm in the event horizon too and I end up on the other side of the cosmos from you.
Where you are, it's 12:03, where I am, it's 12:03. We are now, by the current speed of
light's measurements, billions of light years away from each other.
Say I"m on some particle orbiting a light emitting object, and so are you.
Either one of two things are true: At 12:04, either you can see the light from the object I'm orbiting,
or you can't.
A. If you can see the light at 12:04 then: It doesn't mean that it took billions of years for the light to reach you.
It wasn't there a couple minutes ago. You, and the light/matter/gravity/time, just traveled, just
came into existance, just started exibiting qualities of speed, mass, energy, just a minute ago.
Light and everything else just traveled billions of miles in less than a fraction of a second.
Considering their interrealted qualities, it is obvious that all sorts of factors, gravity,speed,
change in mass, were running by different processes at 12:05 Tuesday than they are now in 2008.
B. If you can't see the light at 12:04 then:Then you will eventually, based on whatever the speed of light turns out to be.
Stars will star to pop into view into your night sky as the distance is made by the light.
Thing is, we don't really observe B. Then the case might be more like A.
The speed of light obviously has not always been constant.
To know how old the cosmos is, you would have know much much more than the current speed of light.
You would have to know exactly how far 'everything' traveled after the big bang.
Quite the trick, as the fabric of space was probably expanding too, light wasn't constant,
matter-energy conversion wasn't constant, not a lot to stand on there.
What WOULD make a nice constant is if the 'multi-level dimension' idea were true.
If that were true, then you could use this as a constant:
If there was a plane or dimension existing just below ours, one that exists at 12:00 Tuesday,
then if you could drop down to that plane, you could then pop up anywhere on this plane, at any
time or place, at will. Anything on that plane could be used as a constant because it existed
before the big bang.
The event horizon/spot were 12:01 exists will probably always be separate from both planes.
Anyway... branching out quite a bit there, but the point being is this:
Just be cause one star is a long ways from another star, gives no basis for age of the universe
or cosmos for that matter.
We don't know 'when' time,space, matter, light and energy finally settled down to their current
qualities, characteristics, and relational patterns.
Anything before the time they settled down, is fair game to the imagination, as there is no
rational way to predict how or when or where, especially how much 'time' anything took.
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