The speed of light (and acceleration with which it is changing) in the Theory of the Shrinking Universe (TSU) is not derived from spatial values over time – it is the principal matter of the Universe. This means that the speed of light creates the universe, time and space. And the space itself - in fact, is fiction, sort of a "matrix" of the reality that we are aware, and the reality is not the space, the space is just a mirage, a reflection of reality in our minds, the reality - is the speed of light. Changing speed of light in the TSU is not a postulate, but is derived from the conservation laws. In addition, TSU reveals the physical meaning of many of the fundamental principles - the principle of relativity, the upper limit for the speeds of objects, the birth of the space, and many, many others... Central concept is that the universe is not expanding, but is instead contracting. The contraction is centre- less (uniform), and the velocity of contraction is ‘c’. (Perhaps it would be more appropriate to state it as that ‘c’ is equal to the rate of contraction of the universe at the observation location, and that, consequently, the speed of light there is ‘c‘. We approach this subject with a thought experiment, but before we do that it behooves us to examine the nature of our own thought processes. They are not simple extensions of the realities around us. Images focused on the retina of our eyes is transmitted to our brains as sequences of electrical pulses (synapse firings). Our brain interprets these electrical pulses into an internal representation of the outside stimulus i.e., our brain creates a ’model’ of the outside stimulus. Our model of a coffee table might be as a flat surface supported by four legs at a height suitable for use. This model serves us for the purpose of using the table and navigating safely around it. A physicist might, for his purposes, model the table as an organization of atoms each separated from its neighbors by a distance which is vast compared to its own size. Brain models are specific to the intended application. No one model is more correct than any other. Models are application dependent. So a model of a contracting universe is no less applicable than is a model of an expanding universe, for the purpose intended. Thus, argument over which model is ‘correct’ is naïve. Each model is for its intended purpose - in this case, analysis. Everything inside space is shrinking, and space itself, or the volume of it, never changes its own outside appearance. It looks like it is expanding to us because we are getting smaller. But now the question is, how can you explain the fact distant galaxies appear to be traveling faster than our neighboring ones? Does that mean space is shrinking at different rates throughout space? No, everything is shrinking at a simultaneous rate according to what this theory suggests. Distant galaxies seem to be traveling faster only because there is already large amounts of space between them and us. You have to take in account for the growing distance between us and close galaxies, and add that to the distance already established between us and the distant galaxies. A shrinking model of what's inside the Universe makes more sense than an expanding Universe model. According to the Hawking-Bekenstein equation, though the universe continues to shrink towards the Plank dimensions its entropy cannot increase and in fact must decrease as its area shrinks. This is because the entropy tends towards zero as the universe collapses towards the Plank dimensions. We indeed are in a shrinking universe. It's just that our physics upside down. Lawrence Krauss says that the universe is shrinking and expanding are basically indistinguishable. He can only be distinguished when we compare our universe with a pair of our universe. In this isolation, we may live in a world whose time is running backwards, but we feel time is running forward.
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