PRECEDENTS
- CURRENT PARADIGM: Cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the early universe. The inflationary epoch lasted from 10−36 seconds after the conjectured Big Bang singularity to sometime between 10−33 and 10−32 seconds after the singularity. Following the inflationary period, the Universe continues to expand, but at a less rapid rate. (Wikipedia - 02 Apr 2016)
PARAMETERS
- Consider that the following profiling exercise is crude and will benefit from refinement.
- Consider, for the purposes of the profiling exercise:
- that all
objects in the Universe have the same structure:
that is, a matter core surrounded by an area within which the
gravity of the matter core dominates.
- that
all objects in the Universe have a matter core which is subject to the
exclusivity law which is that "one object cannot occupy a
place in space and time that is already occupied by another object of
the same type".
- that all objects in the Universe are subject to the one percent rule whereby ninety nine percent of the matter in an object occupies one percent of the object's volume.
- that the
dimensions of the Milky Way galaxy are regarded as typical of all
galaxies (the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy and thus a median,
there being more lower mass galaxies in the Universe and fewer higher
mass galaxies).
REASONING
- The Milky Way galaxy (including its halo) is a sphere approximately
200,000 lightyears in diameter.
- A
diameter of 200,000 lightyears equates to a volume of
4,188,790,204,786,390 cubic lightyears.
- If
the stars of the Milky Way are one percent of the volume of the
galaxy sphere they equate to a sphere with a volume of
41,887,902,047,864 cubic lightyears and a diameter of 43,089
lightyears.
- If
the atoms of the Milky Way are one percent of the volume of the
star sphere they equate to a sphere with a volume of
418,879,020,479 cubic lightyears and a diameter of 9,284
lightyears.
- If
the nucleons of the Milky way are one percent of the volume of the
atom sphere they equate to a sphere with a volume of 4,188,790,205
cubic lightyears and a diameter of 2,000 lightyears.
- If the quarks of the Milky Way are one percent of the volume of the
nucleon sphere they equate to a sphere with a volume of 41,887,902
cubic lightyears and a diameter of 431 lightyears.
- If
the gravitons of the Milky Way are one percent of the volume of the
quark sphere they equate to a sphere with a volume of 418,879 cubic
lightyears and a diameter of 93 lightyears.
- One
current estimate is that the visible Universe contains 125 billion
galaxies.
- If
the visible Universe contains 125 billion galaxies, with an average
volume of 418,879 cubic lightyears and a diameter of 93 lightyears,
that equates to a sphere with a volume of 52,359,877 billion cubic
lightyears and a diameter of 464,159 lightyears.
CONCLUSION
- That the diameter of the visible Universe at Moment Zero, as deduced through an exercise, is 464,159 lightyears.
COMMENTARY
Notwithstanding
the firmness of the above conclusion, this argument is not that the
(visible) Universe really was 464,159 lightyears in diameter at Moment
Zero. The number is crude and unlikely to stand for long anyway. More
to the point, the argument is a simplification of what
was certainly a vastly more complex occurrence. Later chapters
(specifically Selfproof 0311) hint at
the nature of that complexity. Instinct suggests that the
Universe at Moment Zero was a turbulent and sophisticated object.
The significance of this argument is that,
using
only well established laws of physics, the Universe at
Moment Zero is shown to have been of a size that was, by any
standards, very big. In
the Current Paradigm, cosmologists avoid
attributing dimensions to the Universe at Moment Zero. The
consensus is that a fraction of a second after Moment Zero, the
diameter of the Universe was one Planck Length, the suggestion
being that measuring anything less than a Planck Length is impossible
given the current state of our knowledgebase. One Planck Length is, of
course, an extremely small dimension that causes many problems for the
Big Bang Standard Model - the biggest being "how did the Universe, in
the time available, get to be as big as it is today if it started out
so small". This problem is popularly considered to be resolved by Inflation Theory. However, the large size of the
(visible) Universe at Moment Zero, as deduced with the above exercise, means that the
Universe would have had no problem reaching its present size in the
time available and that, thus, there is no need for Inflation Theory.
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