Fred,

“divergent at the overall level

convergent at the specific level”

“our galaxy is rushing outwardly away from the original starting point for matter.”

As popular as our current cosmological model is, it is built on flawed premises. Supposedly there is no “center” to the universe. When it was first realized distant sources are redshifted proportional to distance in all directions, it meant we would have to be at the center of this expansion and the universe. So it was changed from an expansion in space, to an expansion of space, because spacetime! Which totally ignores the central premise of GR, that the speed of light is measured as a Constant, in all frames. If intergalactic light is being redshifted, obviously it is not constant to intergalactic space!

Long debate and I could point you to a conversation I recently had on medium, with a nice old Italian writer, who couldn’t refute the point, but was unwilling to accept it refuted the premise.

Though the reason is that physics cannot accept a more wavelike view of light and insists photons are the essential form. It is shown that multispectrum light does redshift ever distance, as the higher spectrums dissipate faster and provides an optical explanation for intergalactic redshift, as we are sampling a wave front, not individual photons of single spectrum light.

The point being that the expansion between galaxies is inversely proportional to the gravitational contraction into them, so what we actually have is a cosmic convection cycle of expanding energy and condensing/coalescing matter/form.

As you say, “divergent at the overall level,” is the light radiating universally, toward infinity. While mass/form is, “convergent at the specific level.” Into the local galaxies.

So there is this dichotomy between energy pushing out, expanding, while form defines and coalesces . As societies are the organic energies pushing out, as civil and cultural forms coalesce in. As our bodies are the energies and desires pushing out, as decisions and definitions coalesce in. The heart and the head. Youth and age. Desire and judgement. Liberal and conservative. Thus we are pulled in both directions, globally and locally.

Cycles and feedback loops permeating everything. Yet we are linear, goal oriented creatures, so we seek the bottom line, be it truth or value. Ignoring that both are a function of context. Nodes and networks. Individuals and societies.

Fluctuating inbetween the anarchy of desire and the tyranny of judgement.