Blow me up, Scotty

Here's a fun thought experiment:

If you could blow up a ball to the same mass as the Earth, what would happen?

Although I am not a physicist or mathematician, I believe Newtonian physics predicts that the ball and the Earth would stick together because of their inherent gravity. But I believe Einstein's general relativity predicts that the objects would drift apart into their own curvatures of space.

It would be an interesting experiment because, assuming my prediction, it suggests that gravity is not an inherent property of matter. It is not an inherent property of a ball or of a planet, or anything in between.

Gravity, in my view, is an effect of matter in motion from the Big Bang. And as matter increases in mass, the Big Bang affects it more. This is consistent with general relativity.

In our thought experiment, the inflated ball proceeds on its own course independently through space because the Big Bang is moving it just like the Earth. The inflated ball establishes an orbit around the Sun, falling into its curvature, just like the other planets in our solar system.

So if we wanted to populate a new planet, I guess we could just inflate our own and launch it from Earth. Now wasn't that a fun?

If this, then what?

If the Big Bang is causing the universe to expand, then what is it doing here on Earth?

The answer seems to admit an undeniable reality: the Big Bang must be doing something here. But even though scientists have said for decades that the Big Bang is causing the universe to expand everywhere else, they have not recognized its role on Earth.

As chronicled in this blog, I see it this way:

The Big Bang is moving everything, including objects on Earth. When we see objects "falling" on Earth, we are watching the Big Bang in action. To conceptualize this dynamic, it helps to think of "falling" as "moving."

Newton's apple, for example, was "falling" with the inertia of the Big Bang. The apple was in free-fall until it ran into the Earth.

Likewise, the Moon is falling around the Earth, which is falling around the Sun, which is falling around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and so on. It makes sense to me that the Big Bang is the cause of all this "falling," or motion. It is moving all matter through space.

However, most scientists say the Big Bang is causing space itself to expand --- rather than causing matter to move through space. In other words, galaxies, stars and planets are just along for the ride, like ants on an expanding balloon. But that explanation begs the same rhetorical question:

If the Big Bang is causing the universe to expand, what is it doing here on the Earth?