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Old 13-07-2011, 01:23 AM
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Hmm .. its almost impossible to have a conversation about this without some clarity in the model underpinning it all. The assumptions are critical. For example, if the model is a Godel solution to Einstein's field equations, then there would be no expansion, so I don't know what to make of an increasing z radius over time

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Standard BB cosmological model (FLRW)...so z (radius, in this case) increases with time.

The only way to invoke a Godel solution is to take the premise that the BB is wrong...but what do all the observations tell us. Unless, of course, we're also misinterpreting those observations as well.
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