The Earth, the planetary system, the whole star system and the other galaxies nearest to us are traveling in a huge "bubble" that is nearly 250 million light-years in diameter, where the total amount of matter is half the size of the universe. This is a theory discussing one of the mysteries of the universe, put out by a University of Geneva (UNIGE) theoretical physicist, to answer a dilemma that has separated the scientific community for a decade: what is the speed that the universe expands to? So far, with a statistically irreconcilable variance, at least two independent measurement methods have reached two values which are unequal by around 10 percent. This modern method, set out in the Physics Letters B article, removes this difference without any "new physics" being used. After the Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has expanded – a statement first made by the Belgian canon and physicist Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), and later illustrated by Edwin … [Read more...]