The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics credits Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess with discovering that the expansion of the universe is accelerating instead of slowing down as previously thought.  The discovery came from observations that white dwarf supernovas, all of which tend to produce the same amount of light, appear to get dimmer (than prediction would indicate) the farther away they are.   This faster dimming of the more distant supernovas leads to the conclusion that the expansion of the universe is speeding up.  Earlier theory held that the universe is expanding, but at a slower rate due to the effects of “gravity,” which would eventually reverse the expansion. 

Awarding of the Nobel Prize acknowledges the general acceptance by the scientific world of accelerated expansion of the universe, which the three scientists had announced in 1998 after ten years of observations. 

As an amateur non-scientist theoretician, I also accept, and am pleased with, this new understanding of what the universe is doing.  However, I would like to know what causes the universe to do what it is doing. What causes the universe to expand more rapidly at greater distances?  What is the mechanism that allows white dwarfs to increase acceleration at farther distances? 

I have previously theorized a mechanism that I think may explain the "accelerated expansion" of the universe.  The mechanism is the bivortex-composite body nature of the universe.  I have discussed the bivortex theory in previous posts to this blog:  May, June, August, & December, 2004; June, 2008; and July, 2009. 

In bivortex theory, the universe would consist of a composite body in the form of a spinning bivortex spheroid.  Particles would spiral into each of two polar vortexes.  The particles would concentrate tighter and tighter along a bipolar axis until they met at the central core of the bivortex body.  From the central core the particles would radiate out along the equatorial plane of the spheroidal body.  Particles would arch away from the equatorial plane, at distances determined by their momentum, and curve hemispherically in greater and greater arches back toward the central axis and the opposite poles—beginning a recycling along bivortex gravito-electro-magnetic quadrupolar field lines.  At the outer reaches of the equatorial plane, some particles would escape the recycling within the universe itself. 

This bivortex model reveals that if observations were made from a particle at any point in an inwardly spiraling bivortex polar cone, the particles ahead of it would accelerate faster and the stars behind it would appear to move away faster. 

Particles along the equatorial plane would accelerate outward, due to fewer and fewer obstructing particles in their path.  Particles traveling along the hemispherical arches on their return to the poles and the axis would accelerate toward their destinations.  Therefore, observations from a particle at any point along the equatorial plane would show acceleration of more distant particles.  Variations from these particle accelerations could occur on a local basis. 

The theory put forth above implies that "gravity" is the movement of particles conforming to the curved field lines (“curved space”) of quadrupolar, gravito-electro-magnetic, bivortex bodies.

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