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THE SCALE-EXPANDING Cosmos THEORY SCALE-EXPANDING THE Cosmos THEORY This theory of cosmological scale expansion may provide the missing link between general relativity and quantum mechanics and Is in better agreement with astronomical observations than is the Big Bang theory. 1. Introduction hat is your opinion about the Big Bang (BB) theory? Maybe you have come across speculations that our universe was spun off from a "mother universe" or that it was created in an extremely huge quantum fluctuation. The problem with this, as with any other idea trying to explain the creation of the universe, is that we never will be able to confirm it; the creation scenario will always remain nebulous. Before the Big Bang idea gained popularity in the middle of the 20th century, most people believed that the world exists eternally. In fact, an eternally existing universe was championed by Parmenides some 2,500 years ago. He argued that either the universe exists or it doesn't exist. If it exists, it obviously cannot have been created from something that does not exist, because non-existence means nothingness. Therefore, the universe must always have existed. This line of reasoning makes perfect sense, but the mind reels when confronted with the idea of eternal existence. However, there is a new cosmological model, the Scale-Expanding Cosmos (SEC) theory, which allows perpetual existence. This new model is mathematically simple, is internally self-consistent, and offers many advantages over the BB theory, for example: * The SEC theory is a comprehensive theory developed from first principles. ¢ The SEC theory better agrees with actual astronomical observations than does the BB model. * The SEC theory is internally self-consistent. It addresses a range of existing problems that previously appeared to be unrelated. ¢ The SEC theory explains what makes time progress. ¢ The SEC theory provides the missing link between general relativity (GR) theory and quantum mechanics (QM) theory and explains why there is a quantum world. This new theory implies a very different, yet simpler, world view. It involves new ideas, but is supported by observational data and conceptual clarity. The SEC theory is elegant compared to the BB patchwork. This paper presents the philosophical and conceptual aspects of the SEC theory as well as some of its implications. The reader interested in the mathematical aspects or the observational details may consult my article in Physics Essays (Masreliez, 2006b) and my papers listed in the references. 2. How we got on the wrong track The Big Bang theory was developed in an attempt to marry astronomical observations to the belief that there must have been a creation event. I will assume that the reader is familiar with the main justification for the Big Bang idea, which is the cosmological redshift. The frequency of light from galaxies is reduced; it is "redshifted" in proportion to their distances from us, which has been interpreted as a Doppler-type effect caused by their motion away from us. With this assumption, the Big Bang idea was born. If galaxies are moving away from each other, they must have been closer together in the past. Extrapolating this farther backward in time, we end up in an infinitely dense state—the Big Bang creation event. This model of the universe also gained support from the fact that a spatially expanding universe may be modelled by GR, which gave the model physical credibility. Two additional observations seemingly support the Big Bang: the light element abundances and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. by C. Johan Masreliez, PhD © 2006 JUNE — JULY 2006 NEXUS = 39 Email: jmasreliez@estfound.org www.nexusmagazine.com