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Transverse Redshift

Alexander F Mayer has a very thought-provoking website. The basic idea is the Einstein neglected a small transverse relativistic effect and the consequences of that neglect. He also points out that the notion of a history of the universe is a meaningless statement. I have heard this before, but never understood it until his presentation. The argument is as follows:
  1. Mass bends spacetime.
  2. Because there is only positive mass, spactime bends in one direction.
  3. The distribution of matter is quasi-isotropic.
  4. This causes the structure of spacetime over large scales to appear like a 4-sphere with time always orthogonal to surface of the sphere.
  5. Time will in general over large distance be pointed in different directions and we will see distant galaxies as aging slower, just as they see us as aging slower.
  6. Distant objects will always be redshifted without any motional relativity.
  7. The idea of curved spacetime also leads to a horizon for all individuals in the Universe beyond which objects are seen to move backwards in time.
  8. Apparent backwards time implies that attractive forces wil appear repulsive and vice versa.
The last two I added because apparently AF Mayer believes that the light past this horizon would never reach us because time would apparently be stopped at the horizon; however, we know that light follows the geodesics of the 4-sphere, meaning that some of the light should still reach us.

Add all of these ideas together and some of the consequences are quite astounding:
  1. Dark matter is not required to explain the distribution or behavior of distanct galaxies.
  2. The universe is not necessarily expanding.
  3. There was not necessarily a single "big bang".
  4. A much smaller extinction coefficient is required for light from distant galaxies.
As I understand it, Mayer also believes that galaxies are not created by swirling gas coallescing, which he claims would not result in the spiral structures we see; rather, galaxies are created by worm holes.

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