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Old 01-January-2009, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by tommac View Post
I dont understand can you show this?

Here is a simple 3 particle thing ... but it could me made as complex as you would like:

Before
A-------B-------C-----------------BH

After a gravitational pull
-A---------B---------C------------BH

Note that AB is longer and BC is longer.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH groan!

Yeah, that is what one would see with a BH or another big mass somewhere and like I said THAT IS NOT WHAT IS OBSERVED!!!!!!!!!!!

What we see is the following (using your "drawings"):

Code:
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              E
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-- B -- A -- we -- C -- D --
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              G
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              H
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And then followed by:

Code:
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                   E
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---- B ---- A --- we --- C ---- D ----
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                   G
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And then PLEASE assume that the horizontal and vertical dashes are the same length!!!!!!!!!!! (unless you get to some weird ideas).

I hope this shows you what I tried to explain you in words in the previous messages, that there is a UNIFORM expansion, with everything MOVING AWAY from us in all directions (and yes you have to expand the figure to the 3rd dimension, which is a bit difficult to draw in "code mode").

So, in the end, there cannot be one big mass pulling at the universe, because it is a 3D expansion, and not a 1D like you drew.

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Originally Posted by tommac
There is some evidence that everything in our visible universe is being pulled to one direction.
You are probably thinking about the Great Attractor which is acting on our "local environment" and not on the whole universe.
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