Abstract:  A final look at the accelerating expansion of the 
Universe and a couple of alternate hypotheses concerning the 
alleged event.

1.)  The red shift might be due to "Tired Light" of Dr. 
Fritz Zwicky.  Sodium or other atoms or their ionized state 
might be responsible for the gravitational drag upon light 
as it makes its way across the aether of the universe.  
But... that wouldn't explain the red-shift acceleration 
would it?  Joe'll have to leave that one for the experts.  
There is no apparent place for human intuition in a lot of 
areas of theoretical cosmology when they come up with stuff 
like that.

2.)  The second concept that joe has been kicking around is 
sort of another very final thought on the subject of 
accelerating red-shift that occurred to me.

And that one is that the expanding universe, which is 
allegedly ongoing an increase in its acceleration in its 
expansion, may in fact be occurring not because of a big 
bang but because of a big suck (accretion) going on.

There is in reality, or in human intuition, no reality or 
event that would accelerate an outward expansion of the 
cosmos.  But an inward acceleration is intuitively very 
possible in response to a hypermassive black hole.  

Think about it.  What would the universe look like to us if 
we were currently being accreted at a high inward velocity 
towards a monstrous nasty?  Would we see an 'apparently 
expanding' universe as we headed inward instead of outward?

Let's borrow three of Newton's apples and drop them at 
precise timed intervals from a high spot with no atmosphere 
towards an area of warped spacetime (gravity).

As they fall, they accelerate creating ever more distance 
between each apple.  If you were on the middle apple, it 
would appear that the other two apples were going away from 
you if measured by the red shift alone.

The apples would continue to accelerate in their fall 
towards the gravitational mass creating an impression from 
measuring the red shift that the apples were accelerating 
faster and faster from one another.

Gravitational acceleration apparently is not linear and 
appears to obey some mathematical thingy you will have to 
ask the symbol-minded crowd about.

As a major objection, it was mentioned that the redshift 
appears to exist in all directions and that wouldn't be the 
case if all of the universe were being drawn into a huge 
black hole.  There would be a lot of blue shifting going on, 
or at least parallel movement which would generate no light 
shifting to speak of.

A good question, and a valid objection to which joe has no 
immediate answer as yet other than the highly probable 
existence of many such hypermassive black holes in a three 
dimensional framework that  exist to pull off all the 
ejectiva from all the big and little bangs going on in the 
cosmos.

Apparently it can be intuited:  We are in the middle of such 
a group.

An exploding grape is going to get grape juice all over the 
other grapes.  Everything is accreted (falls down into any 
local spacetime dimples) every which way.

You will have to ask the real scientists about that one.  
Joe doesn't know exactly what is in real fact, red- or blue- 
shifting around us.

Moreover, what effect would the dilation of Time have upon 
our observations?  With the present 48 galaxies, for 
example, undergoing an accelerated movement towards a minor 
time dilation mass of only 50 quadrillion solar masses, what 
is happening to the clock of time upon our own galaxy?

Now, reimagine that as the 48 tiny galaxies and the great 
attractor itself being pulled into a bigger dimple (an even 
greater time dilation event.)

So for the inhabitants of our galaxy, time continues to slow 
as we accelerate our approach towards the event horizon of 
the hypermassive event.  But it approaches us with a speed 
that is many times faster than our currently extremely time 
dilated 'lightspeed'.

In other words, it is appearing to approach us many times 
faster than the currently dilated speed of light as measured 
from within the tiny earth.  Or is it?  Joe thinks he will 
leave that one for the experts.  

This terrible theory maintains that there will be no warning 
of any kind whatsoever to our entire galaxy's oblivion.  

Just an instant 'poof' party.

Probably, not even any gravitational disturbances to give 
away the event arrival given its clock rate under the 
extreme time dilation environment.

One second we are here.

The next the entire galaxy is white hot plasma of some type 
or another within a hypermassive black hole.

Which of the 48 goes in first is a good guessing game.

You won't even hear a belch.

So under that second terrible hypothesis, the entire visible 
cosmos, as far, at least, as we can see, is undergoing a 
process of accretion into the event horizon of one of the 
super massive black holes that was mentioned in the 
Universe+ chapter, er... see chapter 4 and chapter 8.  

The existing cosmos exists mainly because of another earlier 
big bang occurrence due to the internal gravitational 
collapse of its mass. (again see chapter 4 and chapter 8.) 
The 'explosion' or gravitational 'release' of a hypermassive 
black hole simply hurdles stuff towards other hypermassive 
accreting super black holes in waiting.  Everybody 
eventually gets their turn to bang if sufficient mass is 
accreted to a sufficient pressure point to interdict the 
serial additive effects of the 'particle linkage' 
responsible for warped spacetime (gravity).  

Joe certainly hopes that he has misunderstood all this 
'physics' stuff and that he is completely wrong in his 
second hypothesis and tentative understanding' of ongoing 
cosmotic physical events.

If true, then the question becomes:  Just how much time do 
we have left?  A lot?  or a little?

added later:
Well, after thinking about it for a few days or weeks, there 
might be a way to get a handle on the time allotted to 
perform waste upon our humble little planet before we get 
all slurped up.

                       So here goes:

First we have to get... or develop a scenario of what lies 
where.

That is...

We have to map all the farthest away, most distant galaxies 
in all directions from us, say 13 billion light years and do 
it from earth in a totally spherical fashion,  (like we have 
a choice?)  The ones that are leaving us at almost the speed 
of light as shown by their red-shift are the furthest away 
and at the 'end' of the cosmos.  Once we have the map of the 
'enders', then we can determine (or guess) their distances 
from us in billions of light years.

Working inward then we can get the red shifts from other 
less far galaxies, again in a spherical fashion.  

Then... a period of time later we redo all the spherical 
fixes.  Some are not going to be there anymore.  some will 
be there.  Some, that were once 10-12 billion light years 
away will now be '12 to 13 million light years away'

Well... speaking more precisionly, their distance will have 
appeared to have changed more than the their light year 
velocity would have indicated given the observator's delta 
Time.

If we are lucky, many will have not moved at all or more 
than they should have.  The problem is with those within the 
observing sphere that have moved to the 'end of the cosmos' 
distance that were once only 10 billion light years away.  

You now have located the invisible beast in the cosmos that 
is doing its naughty work of accretion.  The rate of outward 
movement of other measured distant galaxies will give you an 
approximation of the remaining time for the local group.

Contrariwise, if our galaxies are currently under an almost 
stalled out time dilation event, as it hurdles towards an 
ultimate dimple in warped spacetime, how can we measure 
anything about the universe with any degree of reality?   
What do we know?  What can we know?  sigh...  

If true, then ignorance is certainly more blissful, and an 
item, to be desired for humanity.

The only thing in a joe's mind concerning mass that can 
accelerate its rate of change is a downward or 'upward' 
fall.  Simple expansions (big bangs) don't accelerate.  
Period.

That puts the life forms of the cosmos in a rather dark and 
depressing status quo if you ask me, unless the Soul of the 
lifeforms is really an existent form of some sort of anti- 
gravitational AEther and goes where it is not destroyed 
under conditions of reaccretion.

Or should we then abandon hope for all eternal life assuming 
that there are no such existing fields for the human soul?

Final things indeed...

Thus endeth Joseph_Sixpack's Frankenbook...



Yet another failed attempt to preserve the future and its 
resources for our own children.

But perhaps, in the darkness, this symphony of murder, 
called life, where each animal perpetuates an eternal shoah 
upon the other, gets what it deserves, reabsorption into the 
Lands of Eternal Darkness, where even Time has been stopped.

I think that only God can answer some questions that mankind 
has to ask and wants to know from the cosmos.  and no one of 
us kleptbrains can go to God without God's express help.  
Very, very, depressing.  Time for a whisky and a cry.  then 
a nap.

There has to be an answer to all this crap.  I vote for Dr. 
Fritz Zwicky's pleasant theory 'tired light'.  The other 
ones in the offing are too depressing and keep me up at 
night.