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[Poopadoop]

It is annoying when other people not only steal your idea but do so before you even have it.

You prolly still in with a shot with the Ongdentity Paradox, though.

[OngBonga]

It is annoying when other people not only steal your idea but do so before you even have it.

Yeah, wankers. Wish I'd thought of this before so I could've been the first on the internet to say it, so when it's proven by someone competent I can argue that it's my idea.

I've been trying to get my head around intertial forces. If you're on a carousel that's turning, and you walk from the centre to the edge, then you'll feel two intertial (fictitious) forces... the force that causes you to turn to the right (assuming anti-clockwise rotation) is the Coriolis force, which is why hurricanes rotate in different direction depending on hemispehere... and the force that forces you away from the centre... that's the centrifugal force and is what pins you to the side of a spinning circle. Neither of these forces are real, they emerge simply because we are rotating and because of conservation of energy.

If the universe is rotating around a central point (it's what I believe... the central point has a name... the "big bang"), then we should expect intertial forces to emerge within the system. Dark energy is what's believed to be causing the expansion of the universe... well, if it's rotating, then the outer regions will appear to be moving away from the centre faster than the inner regions, because of the centrifugal foce. This will give the illusion of expansion. However, we're not moving directly away from the centre, because of the Coriolis force... we're being deflected as our motion changes relative to the source of our motiion... so this "expansion" is drifting and is following a curved path which is ultimately circular.

If we throw a ball from the equator towards the north pole, we can see the ball drifitng, following a curved path, because we are using the earth as a reference point (Coriolis). If we took the earth away and looked at the ball from its frame of reference, it would be travelling in a straight line. However, we know it has drifted through space, and over time, the drift becomes greater... the space that the ball is travelling would appear to be "expanding", given the right frame of reference.

I certainly like the idea that dark energy is an inertial force. Dark energy arises becuse we're making the mistake of thinking the universe isn't rotating.