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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.

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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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