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Thought experiment on a limit to the expansion of a Rotating Universe/Cosmos.
Assumption: Let's say whether true or not, the entire Universe/Cosmos rotates about some axis. (The point from which the Big Bang happened, was a tortional explosion, i.e. it was spinning as it happened)
As anyone who has ever looked at a CD or Record spinning knows, a sticker placed at the edge of the record is moving faster (going through a larger distance in the same amount of time) as a sticker placed closer to the center of the record.
We also understand very well that the speed of light is the fastest velocity limit for any particle.
Therefore, it stands to reason then that any particle at the edge of the universe, also cannot go faster than the speed of light. If the Universe is spinning, then that can only mean that the Universe cannot expand past a point whereby any particle at the edge of the universe revolves around the center of the Universe at a speed faster than that of light.
Hence at the edge of a spinning expanding Universe, time will eventually come very close to standing still AND the Universe must at some point stop expanding such that any particle at the edge does not have the opportunity to go along a circumference of the Universe at a speed greater than the speed of light.
If the spinning Universe continues to expand past the point of no expansion, then what happens to a particle at the very edge? I would guess the following:
1) The particle must somehow stop revolving relative to the center of the Universe, even as the rest of the Universe closer to the center still revovles, possibly (along with any other particle with the same predicament) tearing the fabric of the universe at that point.
2) The particle DOES achieve speeds faster than the speed of light...possibly going backward in time or achieving "imaginary" or negative mass. But any such particle, if it could exist, would also likely have anti-gravity forces. If you imagine a boundary of such particles around the spinning Universe, then these particles must somehow also contain the expansion of the Universe, via the anti-gravity forces.
Therefore, **if** the Universe is indeed rotating around an axis, it must at some point stop expanding...it cannot expand forever. Now whether it contracts at that point, is another question all together.
Krombacher
Assumption: Let's say whether true or not, the entire Universe/Cosmos rotates about some axis. (The point from which the Big Bang happened, was a tortional explosion, i.e. it was spinning as it happened)
As anyone who has ever looked at a CD or Record spinning knows, a sticker placed at the edge of the record is moving faster (going through a larger distance in the same amount of time) as a sticker placed closer to the center of the record.
We also understand very well that the speed of light is the fastest velocity limit for any particle.
Therefore, it stands to reason then that any particle at the edge of the universe, also cannot go faster than the speed of light. If the Universe is spinning, then that can only mean that the Universe cannot expand past a point whereby any particle at the edge of the universe revolves around the center of the Universe at a speed faster than that of light.
Hence at the edge of a spinning expanding Universe, time will eventually come very close to standing still AND the Universe must at some point stop expanding such that any particle at the edge does not have the opportunity to go along a circumference of the Universe at a speed greater than the speed of light.
If the spinning Universe continues to expand past the point of no expansion, then what happens to a particle at the very edge? I would guess the following:
1) The particle must somehow stop revolving relative to the center of the Universe, even as the rest of the Universe closer to the center still revovles, possibly (along with any other particle with the same predicament) tearing the fabric of the universe at that point.
2) The particle DOES achieve speeds faster than the speed of light...possibly going backward in time or achieving "imaginary" or negative mass. But any such particle, if it could exist, would also likely have anti-gravity forces. If you imagine a boundary of such particles around the spinning Universe, then these particles must somehow also contain the expansion of the Universe, via the anti-gravity forces.
Therefore, **if** the Universe is indeed rotating around an axis, it must at some point stop expanding...it cannot expand forever. Now whether it contracts at that point, is another question all together.
Krombacher