[MD] Speed of Lighting, Roar of thunder...

[John Carl]

Magnus,

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Magnus Berg <McMagnus at home.se> wrote:

> Hi John
>
> Yes, I've started to lean that way as well, that gravity pushes everything
> away from space, rather than pulling towards mass. That could possibly get
> rid of the dark matter and dark energy patches.
>
>
What intrigues me is the idea that our conceptualization of "big bang" is a
simplistic term with connotations that make people think they know what
happened "in the beginning".

That these conceptualizations go a long way toward reassuring people about
what happened, but block new thinking that has better explanatory power.

Gravity as a pusher, rather than a puller would make sense and corresponds
to a wave-like phenomenon that shows why the universe is expanding, without
the need to conceptualize some big explosion pushing everything apart.

John