> It has been a long time since I looked at GR.What is the technical name for
> Russ's view? I would like to look at it a bit. Most of my GR books don't
> deal in preferred frame theories.
I believe it is called 'White Hole Cosmology' and it is not a preferred
frame theory, Hanson's cosmology is.
> If Russ's view really doesn't contradict observational data, then I for one
> would have no problem with such a view of relativity. But to be quite
> technical here, what Russ has proposed in not a geocentric universe, but a
> heliocentric one (or maybe a galactocentric one). The motion of the earth
> around the sun prevents the earth from occupying the exact center such a
> universe. The motion of the sun around the galaxy prevents the sun from
> occupying the exact center of such a universe and the motion of the galaxy in
> the local cluster prevents the galaxy from occupying the preferred center
> exactly. I am not sure exactly how this helps other than that we are in the
> neighborhood of the center and will be for a long time.
> glenn
Yes, this is not strict geocentrism. But unlike the currently accepted
cosmology which states that the universe has no center, this states that it
does have an actual center and that we are at or near it.
-jpt
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