how small is our universe???
What is clear is that our universe had a start point. not so clear is that all matter creation is sub light. This means all matter exists inside a sphere whose surface is been continously created leaving behind sublight particles like neutrinos. That surface is advancing steadily away from its geometric origin point at a speed that is sub light and may actually be slow.
The creation process produces our microwave background. It also produces a reflective surface beyound which light does not go or beyond which TIME exists. Wat this really means is that all light is passing back and forth inside the sphere itself. It is plausible that we are seeing millions of images of our galaxy back through time itself in all its aspects.
the advancing surface itself should be fractal like which fits what we see. Again mathematical continuity is impossible.
so just how big is this sphere of creation? We see multiple images of a galaxy which can also be lensed down to a fractal like image. Yet through any reflection point we should see the whole galaxy. Is just the galaxy big enough to do all this with light moving back and forth for billiions of years?
My central point though is that all that sub light matter created at the surface filled our universe but did not reasonably travel far compared just to our galaxy. Science fiction has suggested such a transition zone and that may well be the actual reality leaking through to us.
Understand just about all our theoretical work including red shifts can fit into this paradigm while we accept the impossibility of mathematical infinity.
Is it possible that our universe is only one to two hundred thousand light years across? someone who loves optics needs this problem.
that scaling still means an awful lot of star and planet creation just inside our galaxy. Yet maybe we can handle that.
