la brea tar pits/ humphreys

GraedekSince you're not getting much on Humphreys' cosmology I'll chip in.As a theoretical physicist who has studied general relativity, I'm very enthusiastic about Humphreys' work. I think it's the answer, at least qualitatively although I am no longer able to follow the finer points of the maths.His model in detail may need to be massaged but the basic idea is sound. It very clenly explains how one can have a 6000 yo universe with 15 billion year old galxies that are visible to us. Humphreys has rebutted Ross' claims. It's all on the web.It's clear that the creators of the Big Bang had to find a way for the Big Bang to warp only space and not time. They succeded by assuming matter was spread evenly throughout the universe for all of its existence. That was an assumption. If you take that assumption away you get a huge-warping of time centred on the centre of the universe as well as space. As simple as that.This is God's universe and God's relativity. A young universe as viewed from the centre basically falls out of general relativity without so much as a nudge.[This message has been edited by Tranquility Base, 12-19-2002]

I'm not sure what you mean Brad? Are you referring to my 'time-warp centred on the centre of the universe'? That's exactly what GR on a bounded manifold predicts.