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Is it possible that things in the universe are shrinking rather than moving away from each other?

Hypothetically Let’s say everything lost 1% of its size/mass/energy every 12 months. From our perspective, because everything was shrinking we wouldn’t notice but if all of the objects were in a finite space it would appear that the objects were physically moving apart.

The smaller everything got the faster that expansion would seem to be happening. This seems a good explanation for the mystery of why the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating against the known laws of physics.

Is it possible that things in the universe are shrinking rather than moving away from each other? Hypothetically Let’s say everything lost 1% of its size/mass/energy every 12 months. From our perspective, because everything was shrinking we wouldn’t notice but if all of the objects were in a finite space it would appear that the objects were physically moving apart. The smaller everything got the faster that expansion would seem to be happening. This seems a good explanation for the mystery of why the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating against the known laws of physics.

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I'm familiar with the math and the theory, but this whole thing reminds me of going to an astronomy conference back in the day. The grad students were presenting a model of both visible matter and dark matter in the universe. They were going on about how much better the dark matter matched the distribution in their model. During the questions after the presentation an old guy stands up and says "Is the reason the dark matter matched your model so much better because no one can see dark matter and prove it wrong?" Then the presenters sputtered for a few seconds and he said something to the effect of "never mind just kidding" and sat down. Since then I've always been struck by the fact that we really don't know, and all our math and theory can be totally wrong and without any way to observe what we're observing there is no way to really know. Same for a lot of "science". Without it you can't disprove the null hypothesis.

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Dark matter is bullshit. It's just like "institutional racism" or "aether." People see something that conflicts with their understanding, and rather than rejigger their understanding they invent a magical new 'thing' to explain the observations.

Since then I've always been struck by the fact that we really don't know, and all our math and theory can be totally wrong and without any way to observe what we're observing there is no way to really know.

That's true in some cases, but not this one. The distances to other galaxies are well-known and established by physical measurement. It isn't guesswork or theoretical calculations.

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>Established dy physical measurement

Bullshit, no one went out and checked.

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Bullshit, no one went out and checked.

Nobody needs to. If you show me a rectangle property 300 feet wide and 500 feet long and ask me to measure the diagonal distance from one corner to another I won't have to go out and check. I know the distance is the square root of 3002 + 5002 (583 feet 1-1/8 inch). Nobody needs to check because the Pythagorean Theorem has already been well established to be true. The same is true for cosmological distances. That's why I said if you understood the foundations you wouldn't have doubts. There's a reason the people who have doubts are always the people who are ignorant of the foundations.