The Collapsing Universe

[galaxy_storm]

(sorry if this isn't the right section for this post, feel free to move it into the right one.)
I remember reading this site maybe a year ago, and I thought it contained a lot of interesting ideas about the universe. You might want to read something on CMBR and redshift/blueshift before reading the pages, but I did understand it even without any previous reading on these; basically redshift occurs when the light source is moving away from the observer, blueshift is the opposite.

The website doesn't exist any more, but I was able to find a copy of it in the web archive.
(be patient, the images take some time to load)
The link is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060427003648/http://www.btinternet.com/~mtgradwell/
Here is a diagram that explains why we see the universe expanding, yet it is actually collapsing, and why the path a light has to travel from one point to another does lenghten as the two points approach the centre of the universe: http://web.archive.org/web/20060502183654/www.btinternet.com/~mtgradwell/universe2.html
Also see the page "What we can see", http://web.archive.org/web/20060502183737/www.btinternet.com/~mtgradwell/whatwesee1.html

The idea is basically that the universe is much smaller than we see it, and it has a centre ("Great Attractor"). Light can orbit around this centre, and what we see as "distant universe" are actually multiple distorted images of the local universe - a light that has orbitted one or more times around the centre.

The universe is closed, and much smaller than the visible universe appears to be, and has a centre.The visible universe is actually a collection of matter surrounded by multiple distorted images of itself;

By closed, I mean that even light can be considered to be following orbits within the universe; that, no matter how far light gets from any concentration of matter, it will always eventually be drawn back to a matter-dominated region, and may visit the vicinity of its source several times before being absorbed or detected. Because of this, apparently distant objects (especially those beyond an apparent distance of one billion light years) may lie in directions very different from their apparent directions, and may be images of local objects.  ...
Apparently separate regions of space look similar because they are in fact the same region, viewed by using light which has traversed different paths.

Any comments?

J.M.

[MisterJingo]

Google "Martin Gradwell", especially in the sci.physics groups of usenet (google groups), as there is a tremendous amount of data debunking his ideas and calculations from regular posters to those groups.