Answering Charles's inquiry about dark matter and the outward expansion of the universe caused me to reflect a bit on the SRT/GR Cosmological concept.

At our "now" here on Earth, folks observing us from a light year away, would see us and our Earth as it existed a year ago. Millions of dead people would still be alive.

Observers 3,000 light years away would see the glory of the Hebrew empire. At 4,000 light years, Abraham, and the construction of the pyramids would be observable.

At 100,000,000 light years out the dinosaurs could be seen roaming the Earth. Observers at 400MLY would see Pangea and the Pantholassic ocean.

At 4.6 Billion light years, observers would see a star, our sun, and planets being born.

All this is not lost like waves on a four Dimensional Ocean. What is the proof of my assertion? The existence of singularity is proof that it all comes back; that the periodic function is completed. The "Cosmic Background Radiation" is our proof.

At different Geometric coordinates, we, and everything in the universe exist eternally.

At his coordinates, Abraham is still being called from Ur. King David, as a young shepherd is writing songs, and observing the universe from the hills of Israel. In fact, dinosaurs still rule the earth and the Earth is still being formed from the same atoms.

This is SRT/GR REALITY. It is a matter of observation.

Just as the eternal present departs us outward, on the other side of time, the eternal future approaches. As it nears we can often sense its impending arrival. It too is real and eternal. The mass of the other side- the Antiverse is so real it is seen in the rotational characteristics of the galaxies.

At our frame of reference, we live in our own world. Time to us, in our universe locally seems vastly different from cosmic reality. Yet somehow on this almost deterministic stage, because the universe is finite, there is gradual change- and we over the eons, are a part of this process; keeping the universe moving toward order, organizing, directing and being directed in the eternal process that is our cosmos.

Best Wishes, Sam Cox