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Hi Kenneth,
You wrote: >>>>>Nowadays, scientists are picking up back the idea to prove that the universe is expanding. That is, new evidence shows that the speed with which stars are moving away from us, is faster in the outskirts of the universe than it is ' here '. <<<<<<<
I have always had a problem with that. The further we look into space, the further 'back' we look in time. The stars now in the so-called 'outskirts' (where is that?) of the universe are the oldest formations, hence came about shortly after the Big Bang (if there was one).
Immediately after the BB (ITWO) matter was naturally going faster than after a slowing down for billions of years. I feel it does slow down, it has to, with all the matter around pulling at one another. It only looks like their speed is faster. And we will still see the Red Shift, even though their speed is from aeons ago (and we are going slower :>)
Of course, there are no outskirts to the Universe. It is not a ball, or a cube. or whatever (the latest is that the universe is FLAT, in a saddle-shape) and we are all expanding at the same acceleration, even if this proves to be a slowing down process.
Vincent also had a point where he says: "the suggestion is that in the very early universe, the speed of light may have been greater than it currently is,"
Will they (we) ever know?
(Of course all of this has nothing to do with memetics - just a BTW).
Dini
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