From: eric@flesch.org (Eric Flesch) Subject: The Slide-Rule of Time -- Mach's Schlecht! [Hyperstar Cosmology] Date: 1998/10/08 Message-ID: <362814df.21409928@news.nn.iconz.co.nz>#1/1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Internet Company of New Zealand Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.astro In the previous posting ("Gravity *is* Acceleration") of this 4-part series I described how gravity is caused by the Universe's expansion. This expansion is accelerating, as has recently been demonstrated by supernovae light curves. Thus gravity is plain *inertial* acceleration, as the 5-D accelerating expansion of the underlying hypersphere is mapped into our 4-D manifold by the inertial resistance of mass to the expansion. And yet, in spite of this inertial aspect, the universe's expansion is not physical expansion. The universe does not grow physically bigger, in any identifiable metric. This is because there is no immutable metric against which to compare the universe's physical size. The only metric we have to compare the present universe with, is the past universe. Hyperstar Cosmology carries with it the ultimate disestablishment of Mach's Principle. This principle holds that there is a form of remote control of physical law by distant matter, and is one of the more blatant anthropomorphisms remaining in current cosmological thinking. Einstein originally embraced Mach's Principle as a foundation of General Relativity, but later distanced himself from it. It remains a topic of debate today and has many adherents. Underlying Mach's Principle is a premise of a preferred reference frame pertaining to scale and positioning. Thus Mach's Principle is held to provide the absolute rotational frame for which centripetal force is zero. It is a non-relativistic intruder in a relativistic universe. And now disappears in Hyperstar Cosmology. If we remove Mach's Principle then there is no metric or mechanism to inhibit changes in universal parameters with time. This is where the hypersphere's 5th dimension comes in. The hypersphere is an active busy steward of our universe, so I dub it a "hyperstar". This fifth dimension manifests itself as a *manifold scale* which keeps the space-time continuum stable, and is broadcast radially from the hyperstar's core. But the scale itself dilates with time, like an undisciplined drummer who steadily increases the tempo -- there is nothing to prevent this. We do not notice any effects from this quickening of the scale, as locally everything still fits together in our 4D manifold in the same way as before. But by looking outwards into space we can see that time ran slower in earlier times. This is the cosmological redshift. We have the choice, if we are predisposed, to view the universe's expansion as spatial expansion. But the incorrectness of this view comes when we realize that distances do not increase. If you start with two objects 1000000 LY apart and immobile WRT eachother (assume no gravitational effects), and come back later, you'll find they do not increase their separation. I'm not saying that they remain immobile WRT eachother in the Standard Theory -- I'm saying that that's what *really* happens, so it is experimentally verifiable in some way well beyond current capability. This continuous slide-rule-like logarithmic change of scale carries with it the 5-D dynamics which manifest as inertial gravity. Space-time itself is continuously impacted by this evolving 5-D scaling, and the ghostly heat of this dynamic interaction is seen as the CMBR. The CMBR is thus sourced from outside our universe (as is gravity) and radiates inwardly with a pure blackbody frequency profile. Thus, the Machian concept of the influence of distant matter is superseded by the grip of the 5th dimension of manifold scale which is broadcast by the hyperstar which our spacetime surrounds. This manifold scale keeps spacetime in order and establishes a preferred rotational frame. And the steady slide-rule like change in this scale powers gravity and the CMBR, and is seen as the cosmological redshift. Eric Flesch Nelson, New Zealand 8 October 1998