Dale wrote:
I have been posting for a few years on Usenet about an alternative theory that has not received a lot of support but then again it has not received much criticism either.
It looks at the idea that since gravity can be shown to slow time,that this slowing or dilation of time can in turn can be shown to contract matter in such a way that it will also expand the surrounding space.
You need to see my web site www.alttheories.com if you want to see some gedankens to to get you thinking about why this is probably true.To save time and posting time I am just going to review one of the suggested experiments here that could be used to test this theory and you can see how this type of expansion would so neatly give the same predictions as those of inflation theory now.
Everyone now knows how time is supposed to be slower near black holes, neutron stars and to lesser extents any planets with gravity. For the sake of clarity it should be pointed out that this time slowing or rather most commonly referred to as time dilation works on objects even if they no longer experience gravity by for example just starting their free fall deep inside the gravity well.
So assuming this theory is right then an object experiencing time at about 1/2 of our time would relatively speaking of course then that object to us would also appear to have contracted by 1/2 to our prospective.
Now for the hypothetical experiment.
Free falling objects would contract around their centers of gravity as they fall towards such things as neutron stars or black holes.Two cubes placed near each other would contract and appear to travel away from each other much the way that by analogy 2 cubes of jellow left to dry out would contract around their centers of gravity and leave more space between them. But the problem with using this method to test the theory is that objects in free fall towards a planet will also fall towards a common center and as a result would travel towards each other however this could be avoided if you had our planets all strung together in such a way that we have the one axis along lengthwise where objects do not have to fall towards a single point and then we have that one axis where we can observe the effect without it being swamped out by the need to fall towards a single point.
What would be seen to happen on our hypothetical space ship in free fall is that the 2 cubes would contract around their common centers of gravity and would at the same time appear to move away from each other.Its to be noted here that our space ship must also contract with ten ends becoming closer adding to the appearance of movement.Note how this type of movement is the same as if new space were being created between the cubes and that they are not actually moving at all.
This theory appears simplistic but when applied to the creation of black holes results in similar predictions for hypothetical observers inside of the black hole while it being created.Remarkably similar to those of inflation theory.Occam's razer would probably favor this theory.
There is a lot more to this theory thats not even on my web site yet but it has been examined quite completely mostly in sci.physics under my name Dale.