Scientists seem confident that the rate of expansion of the universe is increasing. I don't believe this, and i want to know if my theory has an flaws to it.
The evidence, as far as im aware, for the universe expanding faster is that the father away from earth we look, the faster galaxies are moving away from us. The galaxies etc. that are billions of light years away are massively red shifted, showing that they are moving away from us at a phenomenal rate.
The thing i dont understand is, these are galaxies billions of light years distant, the light from them has taken billions of light years to reach us. Meaning the light left these galaxies during the 'early years' of the universe. So surely the fact that they are red shifted is because back then, when the big bang was still recent, everything WAS expanding at a phenominal rate, and now, billions of years later, things have slowed down, which is why nearby galaxies dont appear to be travelling away as fast....
2007-01-17
04:05:01
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Johnno
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