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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 aware of the foundations. I don't believe you can say for certainty that your theory is correct without being able to actually check. History is full of theories that were rigorous, well reasoned, and wrong. We don't even know if the speed of light is constant over long distances, we just assume it is because we know it's constant on earth. Same with gravity. Same with all the "universal constants" or "laws of thermodynamics". We know what we can see from earth, notning more. The expanding cosmos is an interesting theory but limited by our inability to travel beyond our solar system.

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I don't believe you can say for certainty that your theory is correct without being able to actually check.

That's what I'm talking about when I say it is checked. You're saying it can only be checked in one specific way.

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No, I'm saying without actually checking we're just guessing based on what we can know so far. It isn't science in the sense there's no way to refute the null hypothesis. It's interesting, but no need to pretend we're certain. This is a major problem in all research but it is most obvious in things like astronomy or archaeology.

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What is "actual checking"?

In my example about the 300' x 500' property nobody needs to actually check that it's 583' 1-1/8" from corner to diagonal corner. It can be calculated and is known to be correct. If someone came along and insisted that I get a tape measure and check, I would rightly just laugh at them and tell them to learn some geometry.