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I've been inspired by a certain other twebber to describe my very own crackpot theory. This is something I've labored on for hours, or at least quite a few minutes, armed with none of that fancy math or scientific formulae.
The known universe is expanding at an increasing rate because of... light pressure!!!
No, really. Light pressure!!!
Under Relativity, the distance between objects decreases as you approach the speed of light relative to those objects. The time it takes you to pass between those objects decreases. For light itself, there is no distance between objects. A photon is at its origin and destination simultaneously, from its own perspective. It does not experience the passage of time, and therefore cannot decay during transit. We see a time difference, but the photon does not.
This implies that the photon needs a destination! It can't just fly off into empty space. There must be a particle of matter to be its destination. In fact, I submit that there really is no such thing as a photon particle. Since there is no distance from the light's perspective, there is simply a direct transfer of energy from one particle to another. This transfer gives the appearance of a wave, and imparts a momentum similar to the impact of a particle, and there is a time difference perceived by observers, but there is no actual particle traveling from one point to another.
Why is this important? It is very simple. The light cannot simply radiate beyond the known universe. It must transfer to particles within the known universe. Unless there is matter beyond the known universe... which could be pulling on the matter in our known universe to speed it up... But no! That's for someone else's crackpot theory. My crackpot theory will have none of that outside matter. Anyway. Since the known universe is roughly a sphere, with the matter spread around the surface of that sphere, the light must transfer from point to point on the surface of that sphere. And so the momentum imparted by the light serves to push the matter ever faster outward.
Now, I'm sure there are other explanations that may seem perfectly reasonable, but they are, of course, simply part of a conspiracy against me.
The known universe is expanding at an increasing rate because of... light pressure!!!
No, really. Light pressure!!!
Under Relativity, the distance between objects decreases as you approach the speed of light relative to those objects. The time it takes you to pass between those objects decreases. For light itself, there is no distance between objects. A photon is at its origin and destination simultaneously, from its own perspective. It does not experience the passage of time, and therefore cannot decay during transit. We see a time difference, but the photon does not.
This implies that the photon needs a destination! It can't just fly off into empty space. There must be a particle of matter to be its destination. In fact, I submit that there really is no such thing as a photon particle. Since there is no distance from the light's perspective, there is simply a direct transfer of energy from one particle to another. This transfer gives the appearance of a wave, and imparts a momentum similar to the impact of a particle, and there is a time difference perceived by observers, but there is no actual particle traveling from one point to another.
Why is this important? It is very simple. The light cannot simply radiate beyond the known universe. It must transfer to particles within the known universe. Unless there is matter beyond the known universe... which could be pulling on the matter in our known universe to speed it up... But no! That's for someone else's crackpot theory. My crackpot theory will have none of that outside matter. Anyway. Since the known universe is roughly a sphere, with the matter spread around the surface of that sphere, the light must transfer from point to point on the surface of that sphere. And so the momentum imparted by the light serves to push the matter ever faster outward.
Now, I'm sure there are other explanations that may seem perfectly reasonable, but they are, of course, simply part of a conspiracy against me.
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