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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

Here's a thought: If the universe is indeed rotating, then the further away something is the faster it is moving, but NOT AWAY FROM US -- it is moving transverse to the line of sight, traveling across the sky.

There is a redshift associated with this motion. It comes from Einstein's special relativity. Time moves more slowly for an object that is moving. It's roughly half the redshift we would expect if the object were moving away from us.

How would cosmology change if we interpret all these redshifts as evidence of ROTATION instead of RECESSION?

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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

I should acknowledge that it is going to be hard to overthrow that most basic of deductions from the earliest cosmological studies of redshift. And the rotating universe needs a center of rotation. which must be in our vicinity. And the rotation must be about an axis, which would fail to explain why we see redshift when we look out along that axis. And the transverse redshift would create an upward curve in the Hubble graph, when in fact the Hubble graph is observed to have a downward curve.

There are big problems with this hypothesis, and I posted it off the top of my head without thinking it through.

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Max Leyf's avatar

😲

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K V Ramani's avatar

But you are also saying the universe is expanding. Doesn't that signify recession? Alternatively, can rotation and recession be equally valid and coexistent?

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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

Angular momentum is a fundamental conserved quantity, basic basic physics. The BB theory absolutely can't accommodate a universe that is rotating. And the evidence this week is in your face -- twice as many galaxies rotating clockwise compared to counter-clockwise. It's not something observers or statisticians can argue about.

Let's see how long it takes for the community to absorb this stinger. It was known, as I said, since 2007, but...but.......

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K V Ramani's avatar

Does angular momentum make it impossible to draw a straight line between any two given points in the universe? In other words, does angular momentum rule out linear momentum?

Dumb questions from a layman. So please clarify in your best physics for dummies style.

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Hugh Willbourn's avatar

Alexander Unzicker has written thoughtfully about Einstein's (abandoned) notion of a variable speed of light and its implications for the orthodox theories about the creation of the universe. And btw as Everybody Knows the origin of the universe is undoubtedly a wet-market in Wuhan

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Prof. Fred Nazar's avatar

It's not only the anthropic Universe, it's the anthropic earth and the anthropic eco-systems!

Think about the Van Allen shields!

About Near Death Experiences: atheists can’t explain how a blind from birth, can see in colors for the first time when dead (zero blood-circulation and zero brain electrical activity).

Similarly, they can’t explain how a deaf from birth can hear and transcribe the conversations in the surgery room (how could they associate a spoken language they’ve never heard of, with a written word they never heard the sound of it!). Not to mention celestial music.

They are baffled by NDE testimonies with impossible knowledge confirmed by doctors.1

For example, Dr. Parnia placed hidden stickers above the ceiling panels so that those with out-of-body experiences (who usually float up), could report what they saw, which would prove the experience, considering it was impossible for them to have that information.

Near Death Experiences prove:

1. Even in the absence of pupillary reflexes and other brainstem reflexes like the corneal reflex, oculovestibular reflex, and pharyngeal(gag) reflex1, there’s no such thing as “brain-death” during a window involving hours (until the silver cord joining the soul to the body breaks irreversibly). Hospitals and Doctors are not only denying resuscitation to all recoverable patients, but murdering the useful for organ harvesting.

2. The existence of the immortal soul since conception: abortion is murder.

3. Consciousness, free will, intelligence, memory, crisp senses, extra-sensory perception, and telepathy, which don’t depend on the body but on the soul. It’s not “altered states of consciousness” but our real person detached from the body.

4. The existence of a personal judgement for all our life, each of our thoughts and actions, with a Hellish punishment for bad actions to other people and oneself, or a Heavenly reward for good actions.

5. The existence of angels who guide above those saved, and demons who pull down and torture those condemned.

6. Our acquaintances who made it to “Heaven” are alive and happy, not sleeping.

7. The existence of only one God, source of love and spiritual light.

Speaking about conspiracies:

Why is food poisoning legal? (Rumsfeld forced the FDA approval of Aspartame/Nutrasweet)

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal

Your phone attacking with ultrasonic booms?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sound-of-silence-challenge

How could a father get 20 million dollars from the Government?

A 20 sec video of a baby with vax seizures?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/autism-day-shall-we-celebrate-the

Your opinion about Big Pharma scandals?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government

Ready for anti-COVIDiot pills?

Did you know that the PCR-test doesn’t measure sickness and is not suitable for tracing, with up to 90% false positives? It was a PCR-demic!:

https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/18/who-finally-admits-pcr-tests-create-false-positives

https://rumble.com/v6kevka-understanding-pcr-as-a-diagnostic-test-applications-and-pitfalls.html

That Dr. Fauci admitted that there was no scientific basis for social distancing?

https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/04/fauci-admits-there-was-no-scientific-evidence-for-six-foot-social-distancing-rule/

That the CDC admitted that masking was useless against COVID?

https://web.archive.org/web/20211230231436/https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/07/26/over-50-scientific-studies-conclude-masks-do-nothing-to-prevent-the-spread-of-illness-so-why-do-people-keep-claiming-they-work/

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-28-cdc-admits-masks-totally-useless-against-covid.html

That you’ve been lockdowned for nothing? Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of 18000 studies proved that lockdowns didn’t work, and worse, killed people by stopping those with cancer or heart conditions from getting testing and treatment

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

Could you please explain why no Health Agency researched the 30+ COVID effective cures, but instead censored and banned the doctors successfully applying them? Was it because a successful cure would void the Emergency Use Authorization of the lethal vaccines?

http://c19early.com

http://bit.ly/research2000

Should every single vaxxed on the planet be suing Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA plasmids in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence in the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada and Slovakia?

President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”

Satanic Secret Societies for dummies:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/sss-for-dummies

Who are The Powers That SHOULDN'T Be ?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/criminal-intent

https://www.coreysdigs.com/global/who-is-they/

The end of money and freedom

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/uncle-sam-altman

LBJ killed JFK

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/lbj-killed-jfk

Weaponization of Justice: no democracy with Freemasonry!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-justice

Illuminati David Rockefeller, finest quotes:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati

Confessions of ex illuminati Ronald Bernard:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald

Illuminati Attali, finest quotes:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/attali-illuminati-finest-quotes

Chisholm, father of the WHO’s global pedophilia

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/brock-chisholm-father-of-the-whos

Ex mason Serge Abad-Gallardo:

https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism

16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison

Please share, not the articles, but the information! I'm expendable. Saving the free world, is not!

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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

Wow -- you've offered me a reading project that will fill a very interesting few days!

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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

Sabine Hossenfelder summarizes problems with the Big Bang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBfeKz1SG0k

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John Day MD's avatar

Thank for clarifying the murky bits, Josh.

Chittamatra is the "Mind Only" school of Buddhism, which posits that all of the universe exists within consciousness, which would be the "dreaming observer".

All of our concepts are simpler than reality, but we have to use what we've got.

Thanks for taking shots at it.

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John Klar's avatar

Wow! That was a really intense and enjoyable brain-ride!

I think you should forward this to Sheldon Cooper -- he wants a Nobel Prize and he's a genius.... :)

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Daniel Hanušin's avatar

Without an observer there is no time.

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Fred Kittelmann's avatar

Have you ever considered the notion that we live in a simulation? I've heard several cute (for lack of a better word) explanations for why that notion fits, such as the reason subatomic events are indeterminate until observed is due to memory constraints on the part of the simulator. But the big reason I take the idea seriously is that consciousness strikes me as too complex to simply be part of the fabric of the universe from the get go. No doubt you are familiar with this notion, often spoken of with regard to an airplane. The existence of an airplane implies a process, either intelligent design, or some selection algorithm operating over eons. You can't say a gust of wind came along and blew some metal shards into that configuration. Ditto biological organisms. Consciousness does strike me as less complex than an airplane, or an organism. But how much so? Is there any kind of complexity scale, with units? If so, how many is too many? Maybe even mass, space, and forces are too complex. I confess to being unable to arrive at a perspective from which to precisely assess such. I can't even wrap my head around the bigger question of; Why is there something rather than nothing? Anyway, bottom line, the simulation model solves the problem of consciousness being too complex. Consciousness is simply the code, the software of the simulation.

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Tom Karnes's avatar

So was Einstein right???

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Max Leyf's avatar

This was an excellent article! Thank you, Josh. I have been thinking about this subject ever since I read Michael Disney’s article, “Modern Cosmology: Science or Folktale?”

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/modern-cosmology-science-or-folktale

He does a good job illustrating the self-referential nature of so much of the evidence for the Big Bang, though your essay is more comprehensive.

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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

Thanks, Max -- it seems that you and I have come together in a mutual admiration society. I continue to enjoy your work, and look forward to more.

-Josh

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