Space does not expand. It is us who are shrinking.

[kmarinas86]

If you think about it, it makes sense. Currently the visible objects in the universe are giving off massive amounts of radiation, more than they are absorbing. This results in a slow process in the reduction of mass. Since radiation has an angular spin, even an angular momentum, it would make sense that the formation of a photon would come with a corresponding change in the angular momentum of a system of gravitating particles. We know that when most objects heat, they expand. Therefore wouldn't it make sense that they shrink when radiation is given off? The radiation consists of electric and magnetic fields, fields which leave matter are lost to space. When matter loses electric and magnetic fields, it interacts less with the surround electric and magnetic fields. The system would then be shrinking. But how fast is this shrinking? If we thinking the universe follows Hubble:

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(size = x)
(growth rate = derivative of x = 1)

Couldn't it really be us shrinking?

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(size = 1/x)
(growth rate = derivative of 1/x = -1/x^2)

If it is us shrinking, then apparently the shrinking is slowing down! This would make sense if we understand that if there is less mass, then it's power would decrease.

If we are shrinking, then that would make the wavelengths of distant light appear redder without the need for expanding space (because longer wavelength tends towards red).

Stars in the far distant universe appear dimmer that they appear they should be for a given redshift, according to standard theory.

If our eyes shrink, that means less light to recieve.

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[Turtle]

Perhaps it is the case that space is expanding AND stuff is shrinking, while at the same time the space of expanding stuff is shrinking. Push me, pull you. If you consider a boat moving under power on water, it is periodically accelerated and decelerated with every wave it encounters.

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[Buffy]

Oh gosh.

Then according to Mark McCutcheon, we ought to all be flying off the earth because its contracting underneath us!

ad nauseum....
Buffy

[OldBill]

Just came back from the mid-west. Looking at some of those two-legged herfords back there leads me to believe that WE are expanding faster than space ever could.

[snoopy]

Perhaps its our educational system that is shrinking ??



That would explain Mark McCutcheon himself or perhaps Im being foolish again

[P3X491]

we are not shrinking.
the universe is just expanding.

[rudeonline]

Maybe you can read something about "consciousness, the border of the universe". I don't think that we are shrinking. That would be if space was only 3 dimenional. But that we are at the border of the universe, that make's sence at the point where you are thinking about.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by rudeonline

Maybe you can read something about "consciousness, the border of the universe". I don't think that we are shrinking. That would be if space was only 3 dimenional. But that we are at the border of the universe, that make's sence at the point where you are thinking about.

Check out post #13 of this thread. >> http://hypography.com/forums/astrono...similar-2.html

[spock]Fascinating![/spock]

[InfiniteNow]

I really don't care either way, but just to put this out there...

One of the benefits of the shrinking universe approach is that it's essentially equivalent to the expanding universe hypothesis, and concurrently eliminates the need for the universe to have something to "expand into."

[Buffy]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

...and concurrently eliminates the need for the universe to have something to "expand into."

Well In My Opinion, it only turns the question around:

What are we shrinking from?

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage,
Buffy