The universe in perspective

Abstract

Gödel’s rotating-universe solution of Einstein’s gravitational field equations is interpreted in real projective space. The compass of inertia is shown to coincide with the involuted geodesic of the closed manifold and predicts a cosmological redshift for distant events. Other cosmological criteria of antimatter imbalance, the microwave background and nucleogenesis are satisfied in a natural way. The role of black holes in steady-state circulation, universal self-similar symmetry and the need to reinterpret astronomical data in hyperspace are discussed.