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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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We know for a fact that there's a redshift but we guess it's because things are moving farther away. No one's out there checking proposed a different theory that better explains the observation that the more distant a galaxy the larger its redshift.

FTFY

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Just because no one's proposed a better theory doesn't mean the current one is correct. No one's out there checking that the stars are actually moving, it's basically a religion at this point counting angels dancing on pinheads.

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Just because no one's proposed a better theory doesn't mean the current one is correct. No one's out there checking that the stars are actually moving, it's basically a religion at this point counting angels dancing on pinheads.

Not even close to a religion. You know how they say any sufficiently advanced technology will appear as magic to those that don't understand it? That's pretty much the case here. It's all pretty simple when you understand how it's all measured and the history behind it. I'm not prepared to deliver a course on cosmology on Poal, but you might want to check it out.

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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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