Wow, this is an interesting comment over at Slashdot from Solomon Chang, it’s regarding the paradox over the rate of the universe’s expansion actually accelerating:

Time in our frame of reference is slowing down.

The only way that seemed possible was if we were traveling at speeds close to c, but that didn’t sound feasible since we were observing objects that were moving away from us, in all directions. Then another weird thought occurred to me…

Our observed universe is self-contained within the event horizon of a giant black hole.

We’re closer to the singularity, and accelerating towards it faster than objects closer to the edge of the event horizon. Time will move slower for us, and far away objects will appear to speed up. An outside observer (if such a thing could possibly exist) would perceive our universe as shrinking, but in our current frame of reference, we still think of it as expanding.

One other observation that lends to this possibility is the fact that we have not seen evidence of other “Big Bangs” or other “Universes”. If the Big Bang happened once, shouldn’t it be a repeatable occurrence in the limitless void of space?

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