Leffert's Spacial Condensation

[antoniseb]

So many of the crazy alternatives we see posted here are handwaving things that lack the numbers to make predictions. Here, however, is a paper about a very different alternative, but with some numbers to make it possible to test.

Supernova Ia without Accelerated Expansion The First Global Failure of Relativity Theory

Anyway, I haven't taken it very seriously, but find his work appealing, as it gives some answer to the "how did the big bang happen?" question.

[ferg.c.]

Hi Anton,
I've just skimmed over this on screen and it looks very well written and a trifle familiar. I'm printing it out so I can really get into it. The 4D ball and spacial condensation may be things that I have been kicking around in my head for years but just didn't have the mathematical tools to get it down on paper. If I recognise the basic idea of the expansion type to be related to my own "4D infinte do-nut field" model of space curvature and expansion, I'll get that warm fuzzy feeling! I'll get back to you on this, I promise.
Cheers
Ferg

[VanderL]

Did any of you understand what he meant by "the first failure of relativity"?

Cheers.

[Svemir]

"It is encouraging to note that the early vacuum energy was much smaller on the surface of the..."
WHY ? (Me,asking) Why is it encouraging and to whom?
I think such a "fundamental" paper on cosmology should start with some definitions of i.e. vacuum energy, Hubble law, epi space etc. and first then throw a bunch of equations and conclusions in the face of the innocent reader.

If/When I ever wright a book about everything out there, it will start like all other good oldfashioned books: with a brief history of cosmology, incl. evolution of BB theory, some definitions, axioms and then, first then a real stuff.

There are plenty of cosmotheories on the Internet which include 4 dimensions in one sense or another, this one includes some math, but is more chaotic then others.
Probably because of limited amount of paper avilable to the autor(s), only 15 pages (maybe 10 if you cut off such sentences like one cited in the begining )
to explain 100 things.

[Nereid]

I only skimmed the paper, most of which concerns the very early universe, or 'local' regimes that we won't be able to study in my lifetime (e.g. black holes, Planck-scale phenomena).

However, there are (maybe) several tests that could be applied today:
- compare high-z SNIa distances with those derived from gravitational lensing
- the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (SC would likely give a quite different signature on the CMBR)
- the SZE: this may also be an independent distance yardstick, as well as a DM probe.