Visual uniformity of the universe

Submitted by jhwierenga on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 10:43

The universe looks the same in all directions, as far as we are capable of observing it. There is no particular reason to prefer one direction above any other. No direction has structurally more or structurally less luminosity than others, once we look further than our own galaxy and its immediate neighbourhood. This is somewhat surprising, because, supposing that the universe has been expanding at more or less the current rate since the Big Bang, distant regions in diametrically opposing directions can never have been in touch with each other. That is a problem, because the statistical variations between what they started out with cannot have been evened out unless they have been in contact.  

In mainstream science, this is explained by postulating that just after the Big Bang the universe was small enough for there to be contact between all regions, after which there was a period of cosmic inflation, in which the universe expanded unimaginably rapidly. This expansion is compatible with Einstein's theory of General Relativity, so its not a gap but a hypothesis. That we haven't observed such inflation is the major objection. This leads to an Occam score of 0020, relative to the Big Bang.

In QO, this is accounted for by arguing that the particle distribution in the universe is the result of uniform processes. This leads to an Occam score of 0030, relative to QO. As QO is an order of magnitude more credible than the Big Bang, this explanation is preferred.