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From: OsherD on 19 Feb 2010 23:25
From Osher Doctorow

From the last (sub-)section, there should be a sudden intermittent
sharp increase of repulsions from a cosmological constant or similar
"agency", but where do the repulsions come from other than "eternally
existing" or existing since the Big Bang?

What if the repulsions are a RESPONSE to attractive forces including
electrostatic-based forces? The only intermittent mechanism needed
may be one that actually stares us in the face: the harnessing of
electricity, magnetism, and electromagnetism by an Advanced
Civilization which happened rather recently on earth. To duplicate
this mechanism in "ancient" prehistory, the only thing needed are the
beginning stages of Advanced Civilizations elsewhere in the Universe
with similar harnessing of electromagnetism. Inflation and late
acceleration can both be explained in this way, although separated by
billions of years. Moreover, the greater acceleration of inflation
could be a consequence of MORE SIMULTANEOUS Advanced Civilizations
harnessing electromagnetism.

The picture would then be as follows. About 13.5 billion years ago,
many Advanced Civilizations in the observable Universe simultaneously
harnessed electromagnetism, yielding a super-acceleration repulsion
called Inflation. The solar system, as a rather remote system toward
the periphery of the Milky Way Galaxy, was "naturally" late in this
process. The Universe in our local region would imitate a near-Big-
Bang scenario before that simply because it became rather isolated
from the rest of the Inflating observable or even unobservable
Universe. To put it slightly differently, an "anthropic" principle
held, but not for the Solar System but rather for OTHER regions of the
Universe where the Inflation was most concentrated. The Solar System
remained a relative backwater.

Shouldn't geometric expansion, which Inflation is supposed to be, be
isotropic, homogeneous, etc.? Not necessarily according to Probable
Causation/Influence (PI) in earlier sections of this thread, since an
expanding object or vacuum or whatever can expand differently in
different directions in general simultaneously, somewhat like balloons
of animated figures being blown up.

The fact that our planet is so close to destroying itself so soon
after the advent of electromagnetism could also be explained as being
due to its "backwardness" relative to the rest of the Universe or to
the main body of the Milky Way Galaxy. In some planets, Advanced
Civilizations did not have to arguably arise from such long processes
that led to a primordial ocean and then land and so on. A simply
better genotype could have selected for more rapid development of
Advanced Life than the "apelike" route of earth. To put it slightly
differently, most Advanced Civilizations in the Universe arguably are
billions of years ahead of us, which at the present rate of advance or
rather retreat of humanity seems rather plausible!

Osher Doctorow
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