Hi GD, sorry for being so tardy lately but I'm more concerned with boilers and double glazing at the moment. I fail to see how the universe is expanding, there's so many patches on the poor thing that it would be best to throw it in the bin.
On infinities, there can be no such thing as a "near infinity". After all, how near is near?
I don't understand your point about the centre of our galaxy, what do you find so remarkable about it? There are at least ten to the power eleven of them.
How I think it works is, electromagnetic mass condenses round inertial mass. Half of the mass of an electron say, is contained within a tiny region of space, that is spinning much much faster than light. On the outside we have more space. Now in my book that's a capacitor, it's also a transformer. The electromagnetic force and the electrostatic force are simply attributes of the vastly different spin rates, to the ftl central gyro, the electron surface charge is static, though it's moving at the speed of light!
In John's thread we've been talking about the odd properties of space with a negative refractive index. One of them is this; if we have two spheres of negative refractive glass, light will flow in a loop between them! These spheres are concave lenses! An electron then can have a permanent "current" flow from the space that it's imbedded in, to its central space, without any energy loss. That means forever and a day.
Stars will inevitably die but the stuff they are made of won't. That should mean that over an infinite period of time, the whole of the universe will fill with dead black cinder stars. Though once a star has exhausted its entire store of electromagnetic energy, it has in effect removed the very dielectric which defines the sub atomic particles that make it up. I think that such very cold stars just disappear like the grin of a cheshire cat.
