Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble?

Khemisty writes "Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly void of matter. Scientists say this condition could account for the apparent acceleration of the universe's expansion, for which dark energy currently is the leading explanation. Until now, there has been no good way to choose between dark energy or the void explanation, but a new study outlines a potential test of the bubble scenario. If we were in an unusually sparse area of the universe, then things could look farther away than they really are and there would be no need to rely on dark energy as an explanation for certain astronomical observations. 'If we lived in a very large under-density, then the space-time itself wouldn't be accelerating,' said researcher Timothy Clifton of Oxford University in England. 'It would just be that the observations, if interpreted in the usual way, would look like they were.'"

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Levity Field

[OldHawk777]

Levity Field cosmology, says the known universe is dissipating.

There is nothing in the center of a black-hole, except a Levity Field Singularity (LFS). The physics of how a black-hole LFS can exist is well beyond me, but I think that it is some how connected to the levity field beyond our Einstein-Bohr universe.

No need for dark-mater with levity field mechanics, our known universe must continue to expand at ever grater speed, and eventually dissipate back into ... whatever is the levity field.

IOW: Time-travel ain't possible, and our Einstein-Bohr universe is "e-pluribus unum".

!HAVEFUN! with the "Levity Field".