On 6 February 2014 13:38, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 2/5/2014 9:31 AM, Jesse Mazer wrote: > > --question 1 dealt with the question of how YOU would define p-time > simultaneity in a cosmological model where there's no way to slice the 4D > spacetime into a series of 3D surfaces such that the density of matter is > perfectly uniform on each slice (and that uniform can be characterized by > the parameter Omega), unlike in the simple FLRW model where matter is > assumed to be distributed in this perfectly uniform way. > > > I don't see that perfect uniformity is necessary. We have calculated our > epoch relative to the CMB as 13.8By. I assume any other scientific species > in the universe could do the same and so say whether they were 'at the same > time' as measured by expansion of the cosmos. I don't see how the > existence of galaxies and galaxy clusters precludes this kind of > measurement. > > This will surely be accurate to within a few % ?
(What was that theory that dark energy is the result of clock times varying from one point in the universe to another, so relative voids were rather older than galaxies?) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
