The
raison d'être for the BA part of BAUT is to shoot-down astronomical misconceptions. I have put a concept on the table—
duality—that purports to explain the expansion of the universe, and it remains undebunked...at least in my estimation
While mistakes were made in the
original exposition, all but one were immediately caught by the readers, and all but one were immediately acknowledged and corrected by author…call the score even. Since all reported errors have been rectified, the conception/misconception sits in limbo. You can help decide the proposition.
What is Duality?
Duality is the observation that the universe is neither expanding nor contracting, but doing both at the same time, i.e. is contracting locally while expanding cosmically. It is my contention that mainstream models do not incorporate duality, and if they did, it will be seen that the cosmic (Hubble) expansion is merely the flip-side of local contraction.
Perhaps part of the difficulty is the fact that contraction and expansion manifest in different ways, and it is not at all immediately obvious that they are related.
--The universe is
expanding at the rate of 2.3E-18/s (72 km/s/Mpc)
at distances of greater than 5 Mpc,
--The universe is
contracting at the rate of 1.0E-8 j/kg/s
at distances of less than 5 Mpc.
Cosmic expansion is manifested as an increasing recession velocity with distance; local contraction shows up as points of light, i.e. sources of radiant energy. In order to compare “apples to apples,” the rate-of-expansion must be converted to the rate-of-contraction. When you do this, you find that the rate-of-contraction is actually greater than the rate-of-expansion:
Rate of contraction (estimate post 33): = 2E-8 j/kg/s (2 x 10^(-8)).
Rate of expansion (estimate post 256): = 6E-9 j/kg/s
The first number represents the rate at which
gravitational potential energy (GPE) is being converted to radiant energy. The second number represents the rate at which radiant energy is converted back into
gravitational potential energy (see
here). The difference between the two numbers is the net rate at which GPE is being converted into radiant energy.
In a nutshell, the cosmos is contracting “faster” than it is expanding. That is, the energy released by contraction is more than enough to explain the expansion.
Unless you can show where the numbers are wrong