Abstract

What is dark energy? The consequences of a non-geocentric view of the universe

Author(s): Jan Thurlings

The expansion rate of the universe is determined by the speed of light. This determines the size of our universe. This could not have been larger. So the expansion rate could not have been either. Smaller? But we are at a distance from the ‘Big Bang’ of 15 billion gigaparsecs with a corresponding local expansion rate. Indeed, there is a remarkable variation in the expansion rate. But this makes no difference to the expansion rate of the whole. We have an unjustified geocentric worldview as far as the universe is concerned, not as in the past was the case, but because the emerging universe is expected to expand in all directions at the speed of light, the highest, after which mass is added. Arises, which was undoubtedly extra heavy there and then because of the speed. The primordial expansion 1 is thus a surrounding horizon for our perception.