Universe may not be expanding

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_http://www.nature.com/news/cosmologist-claims-universe-may-not-be-expanding-1.13379


I've always been bothered by the interpretation of the observed redshift as indicative of an expanding universe. This guy proposes an alternate explanation where the mass of particles is increasing. Whether or not this is the case is questionable, but it's nice to see something challenging the mainstream view every once in a while.

The electric universe theorists have something else entirely to explain the observed redshift if I recall correctly.

This article made me think of something mentioned in one of the transcripts that for some reason I can't find. It was a remark about how we don't know something about the nature of matter on cosmic scales. Something about matter being "bigger" out there. I tried for a while to find it but I can't seem to come across it. If anyone knows what I'm talking about and could point me to the transcript I would appreciate it.


Edit: Changed subject title, didn't mean to put the link as the title

 

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Just found this thread discussing the expanding universe idea, sitting gives a link to McCanney's electrical explanation:

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,31872.0.html

I've wondered about this too. In the Seth books, Seth say's that the universe isn't really expanding, it's just an optical illusion from our place in the universe (3rd density?). So I thought maybe the red shift observed by Hubble might be a gravitational red shift rather than the Doppler effect. But I don't know.

FWIW, McCanney has proposed a different effect which causes the observed red shift. And it's electrical.

He called it the Induced Electric Dipole Red-Shift. You can read about it here:


http://tmgnow.com/repository/cometary/ori6.html


I found this paragraph to be of particular interest...in view of what may be coming our way.

"Highly charged comet nuclei will also exhibit a red-shift in spectral lines regardless of the position or velocity with respect to the observer. Red-shift data exist for comets, but have always been interpreted as giving the velocities of tail ions as scientists have assumed that tail ions move away from the comet nucleus. "Tremendous tail accelerations" have posed an unsolved dilemma in interpreting this data. The IEDRS reconciles a new theory with this data, suggesting that the cometary red-shift is not a measure of tail ion velocities, but is a measure of electrical charge on the comet nucleus."