ShrinkingMan

I believe the Universe (and I do mean EVERYTHING in the Universe!) is shrinking at a proportional rate. Actually I believe its shrinking at almost the speed of light. Here's some BASIC things to consider. We all pretty much know that light travels in a straight line and is only "bent" if the space/time it travels through is warped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Stanley_Eddington After the war, Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe near Africa to watch the solar eclipse of 29 May 1919. During the eclipse, he took pictures of the stars in the region around the Sun. According to the theory of general relativity, stars with light rays that passed near the Sun would appear to have been slightly shifted because their light had been curved by its gravitational field. This effect is noticeable only during eclipses, since otherwise the Sun's brightness obscures the affected stars. Eddington showed that Newtonian gravitation could be interpreted to predict half the shift predicted by Einstein. (Somewhat confusingly, this same half-shift was initially predicted by Einstein with an incomplete version of general relativity. By the time of the 1919 eclipse Einstein had corrected his calculations.) So consider a black hole, or "event horizon". What's happening to the light? It's being bent in on itself, right? But actually it's the space/time which is being bent in on itself. The expression "Event Horizon" to me, means a physical horizon where space and time is completely "flipped". Now I think that when you have enough mass to actually FLIP SPACE TIME in on itself with a spherical object like a black hole, then your actually creating something very much like a big bang. The question actually is WHAT happens to matter which is inside the space/time being warped! Now: Imagine you could stand in the centre of a black hole when space time flipped in on you. You are inside a sphere or bubble of space time within the black hole. Space time has flipped and all of a sudden, this bubble of space time your in is being compressed down at the speed of light. You, the gasses / dark matter and everything are shrinking relatively at the speed of light. Galaxies form. Suns form. Planets form. The black hole you are in when observed from outside has remained a constant size, but you, inside your black hole, with the galaxies and the suns and planets continue shrinking forever at the speed of light. BECAUSE space time itself is shrinking. Imagine being anywhere inside a collapsing sphere of space time. When you travel in ANY direction within a sphere, by any speed or degree, you would be travelling AGAINST the collapse of this space time. Surely this is why there are time discrepancies with satellites. In a way, they're time travelling. (I believe its actually this collapsing of our space and time which gives us the sensation or dimension of time passing from one moment to the next). Take the double slit experiment. Why does a photon of light appear to jump through a solid wall either side of a slit. A photon travels at the speed of light. BUT, now consider that the universe is shrinking and everything else along with it. Problem solved. The photon leaves the gun. In between the photon leaving the gun and hitting the wall, the wall (actually the entire universe) has shrunk ever so slightly (including the wall) which makes the illusion of the photon travelling through a solid wall when it hits the photon detector wall. A photon of light is the only thing which would be able to travel fast enough to do this. I think we could actually use this to figure out how fast our universe is shrinking; and rather than just using a simple explanation like this people invent string theory to suggest the photon of light is actually in two places at once! It's a beautifully simple theory (which is why I whole heartedly believe in it). It's based on what we SEE in our own universe (black holes). Doesn't really require any strange maths or string theory (Einstein pretty much nailed it all with Relativity). Super-massive black holes within super-massive black holes Etc. Etc. Etc. There's one are the centre of almost EVERY galaxy. Millions of galaxies and millions of black holes at the centre of them. Infinite. If men could invent an artificial event horizon, no matter how minute (and I'm sure we will one day in our never ending quest for energy), I believe we would actually be creating an artificial universe. In fact, people are probably doing it every day at Cern at not even realising it.