I continue to read Sir Fred Hoyle’s brochure “Galaxies, nuclei and quasars”,
He is undoubtedly a true scientist and an outstanding astronomer, despite all my criticisms of his book.
Sometimes I interrupt my reading for a long time, because I am annoyed by his lengthy arguments, which make me feel like he is “pounding water in a mortar.”
And just now, on page 96 of the chapter “Cosmology of the stationary Universe”, I came across one of his questions, among many and sometimes very interesting ones:
If we accept the idea of a pulsating universe, that is, sometimes expanding to a certain limit, then contracting, how in this case can we explain the REASON for the change of compression by expansion and vice versa?
This question reminded me of my old idea of a pulsating Universe, the description of which was the end of my first novel, “I see something strange…”.
My Mother, after reading the story first and making a number of very critical comments, told me: “Your incompetent and tedious ending HAS RUINED all the good things in the story! Throw it away and replace it with another one!” I instantly agreed with my Mother’s opinion, because I myself felt that I had written something sluggish and slow!
I changed it completely on her advice.
But the idea itself (and not my feeble and incompetent description of it) somehow stuck in my mind and, with the help of Sir Hoyle, it revived and wiggled it’s tail and fins again.
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So, an attempt to answer Hoyle’s question:
Let’s imagine that we are some kind of timeless and extra–spatial “observer”, it is impossible to tell WHERE AND WHEN he is looking at SOMETHING.
This something – is CAVIAR!
Each egg of it is a UNIVERSE, of which there are an infinite number.
One of them is OUR UNIVERSE with billions of galaxies, decillions of stars, and everything else that DOES NOT FILL EMPTY SPACE AND TIME, but creates them by its existence, that is, it creates a completely material basis for OUR SENSATION, OUR PERCEPTION of this material agent as space and time.
Compression-discharge waves run back and forth through this mass of “caviar”. When a compression wave passes through the layer with our egg, it compresses it and all the neighboring Universe eggs, Then, after, say, fifteen to twenty billion years (according to OUR calculation of time sense), compression is replaced by discharge and all eggs, including OURS, begin to expand. We are currently witnessing an expansion process that lasts for a dozen or dozen and a half billion of OUR years. After a certain period of OUR time, a wave of compression will come and our egg, the universe, will begin to shrink again.
Such an idea came to mind.
It’s a pity Sir Fred Hoyle is no longer among us, otherwise I would have sent him this thought, to make him to have a fun.
Faciant meliora potentes.
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