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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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That's the confusing part. You're mind has a terrible time with "nothing." Nothing doesn't mean empty space, it means nothing. There isn't anything to expand into. Even if there was it's impossible for us to know anything about it, and it's impossible for it to have any influence on our physical universe unless the speed of light is not constant.

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Rather of thinking of it as "nothing" I would rather view it as "devoid of anything" as it is easier to wrap your head around, but yeah, even then it is impossible for us to understand the concept of "nothingness".

I have this weird theory where the universe isn't expanding so much as it is being "sucked" from the outside, like how a ballon inflates inside a low air pressure room.