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Old 01-January-2009, 01:11 PM
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Why is a shell needed? Lets say that there is just a HUGE gravitational source outside of our visible universe. ( Maybe another brain in a pre-big-bang state).
Because we OBSERVE everything flying AWAY from us, the farther it is the faster is goes, and thus one HUGE gravitational source CANNOT be the reason, because that would give a UNIFORM DIRECTIONALITY.

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We are all being pulled to that brain. the things that are closer to that area of the universe are being pulled faster ... the things that are farther from that point are being pulled slower ... both are being pulled away from us because of this gravitational force.
What BRAIN? Are you thinking of Magneto of Xmen? Pulling all matter to himself? Again, then there would be ONE SOURCE and thus everything would FLY TOWARDS THE SOURCE, which is something we DONOT observe. So the point is MOOT.
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