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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
There is a feeling in me though that we're missing something simple, perhaps something as simple as an optical illusion. The fact we naturally think in three spacial dimensions is a hinderance to our intuition, imo. We're travelling through spacetime away from every direction we look in, and that isn't easy to imagine. Our motion is towards what we can't see, spactime that is yet to exist.
Perhaps that's where the expansion is. We're moving into expanded space, it expands as we move into it.
It bums me out a bit that someone with your interest and intelligence isn't more directly involved in the field.
I mean... if you spent a week or two studying a book on GR, you'd know more about it than I do, probably. Your background understanding of Newtonian concepts is competent for any undergrad. I'm sure the calculus and linear algebra will be painful to learn, but you'd be good at it. You may not love doing it, but you'd love knowing that you understand the inner workings of GR.
Plus, you're already familiar with light cones and other stuff that an undergrad has no knowledge of coming into the program.
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I mean... its selfish of me to want you in my field, but damn if you don't have excellent scientific instincts.
Some scientific field would greatly benefit by you being in a building where they do stuff.
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