A new theory of the creation of our universe: the Big Bubble.

Consider a boundless Universe in which voids form, for want of a
better analogy, much like bubbles form in Swiss cheese or cavitation
occurs in water. Further, consider our universe to be like one of
those bubbles into the vacuum of which matter outgassed from the wall
of the expanding void, and we have everything we need to very
satisfyingly answer three long-standing, nagging questions: Where is
the missing matter?, Why does the red shift increase with distance?,
and, Why is there a horizon beyond which we can't see?

In order to answer these questions, three propositions need to be
accepted; the first being that the Universe isn't homogeneous (it's
gravitationally lumpy (maybe because it's full of bubbles like ours)),
the second being that the Universe (of which our universe is a part)
exerts attractive gravity everywhere, and the third being that gravity
follows an inverse square law.

Now, If we consider the Universe to be infinite and anisotropic, then
the matter dispersed in our universe will be differentially attracted
by the lumpy gravity behind the wall, and the matter closest to those
attractors will be attracted most strongly. Its acceleration as it
heads for them will, therefore, increase more and more as it gets
closer and closer to them and its red shift will increase until it
hits the wall and is absorbed by the Universe. When that happens it
will disappear, will cease to exist in our universe and will be
perceived as missing.

Then, since it's gone and we can no longer detect it or any of the
other matter which has been absorbed by the Universe, we know where
the "missing" matter went, why the red shift increases with distance,
and why the horizon is where we can't see past where the missing
matter went home.

This is just a rudimentary conjecture and I haven't worked out any of
the details yet, but I'd welcome any serious critique outlining
anything I've missed.

Of particular interest to me would be any data relating to the
disappearance of stellar objects (like Novae) if their red shift was
known when they blew up. Seems to me that if far red shifted Novas
blew up before less far red shifted ones did, then the bubble is
collapsing.

Thanks,

John Fields
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John Fields