External Gravity Cosmology

A pull from outside, not a push from inside.

A loosened belt in space, with galaxies spilling out toward a dark, curving horizon, and the words: The data will take on its natural shape like a fat man’s gut when he releases his belt.

A universe beyond our view

What if everything we can see, out to the farthest galaxies, is only one patch of a far bigger universe? What if that bigger universe goes on forever, and is lumpy instead of smooth? Then the matter beyond our view would still pull on us, harder from some directions than others. Our universe would be gently and unevenly stretched by gravity we have barely begun to detect.

Is dark energy needed?

In 1998, astronomers found that the universe is not only growing, it is growing faster. The usual explanation is an unseen “dark energy” pushing it apart from the inside. No one has ever detected it. External Gravity Cosmology (EGC) offers a simpler answer. Nothing is pushing from inside. Gravity from outside is pulling everything outward. In this concept there is no need for dark energy, and no need for a Big Bang.

Oval map of the whole sky, speckled with red and blue spots, with a grey band across the middle. — The whole sky as seen by the Planck space telescope. It shows a faint glow of microwaves that fills all of space, called the cosmic microwave background. Red spots are slightly warmer and blue spots slightly cooler. The grey band hides our own galaxy, the Milky Way. EGC asks whether these are variations in radiating mass distributions averaged through Our Universe and beyond.

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Putting it to the test

EGC is an idea, not a proven fact, and it can be checked. If gravity from outside is pulling on us, the sky should look slightly different in different directions. The papers describe tests that telescopes can do now or soon. Either way, the answer will tell us something.