Mr. Waugh argues that this analogy was correct and should not have been discarded. He further suggests that the ‘wall’ of the balloon universe consists of invisible scalar fields and particles, analogous to invisible electric and magnetic fields. Mr. Waugh regrets that scientists did not recognise that the FLRW metric, foundational to the SMC, actually conveys this perspective of the universe. The root of this misunderstanding, according to Mr. Waugh, lies in an incomplete comprehension of imaginary numbers (Ref.9), particularly in the Minkowski-Einstein SpaceTime equation. In summary, recent developments in cosmology and physics have raised fundamental questions about our understanding of the universe.

Source: The Guardian October 03, 2023 19:04 UTC