Simply possessing far better telescopes than we'll have in the next few decades would free people from the notion that nothing exists prior to the Big Bang of 13.8 billion years ago. Of course - when I say "better" telescopes, I'm referring to new technology and telescopes that do far more than merely intercept what my hypothesis calls "light waves" for convenience. To be precise, these would be disturbances in space-time which excite photons to visible-light frequencies. As Paul Camp, Ph.D. in theoretical physics, writes at https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-a-photon -
"A photon is a quantum of excitation of the electromagnetic field. That field fills all space and so do its quantum modes."
(This hypothesis says excited gravitons form gravitational waves.)
17th century scientist Isaac Newton's idea of gravity acting instantly across the universe could be explained by gravity's ability to travel back in time, and thereby reach a point billions of light years away not in billions of years, but in negative billions-of-years. That is; the negative/advanced component of a gravitational wave would already be at its destination as soon as it left its source, and its journey is apparently instant. Instantaneous effect over large distances is known as quantum mechanics' entanglement and has been repeatedly verified experimentally. If the retarded (forwards) wave component travels in positive space, the advanced (backwards) component corresponds to an equal amount of negative distance. The forwards and backwards movement in time can cancel to produce a quantum (and macroscopic) entanglement that eliminates the need for the Big Bang's and Cosmic Inflation's solution that the universe is roughly the same everywhere on large scales because everything was once in contact in a tiny space.
The new-technology telescopes would use cancelling retarded and advanced waves to create entanglement of the scope with the universe 10^1,000,000 light years away.
The size of the universe depends on the telescopes .Hundred years ago it was the solar system, later the milky way and now 10^47 m radius. The author is right, it depends on the power of instruments.
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