Space is not expanding

ronbyrne2005

Matter is shrinking?
How can we prove which is really occuring? Hubble redshift can be explained by shrinking matter I've heard.

mike65

If matter were strinking wouldn't we notice? Or are we strinking very slowly?

Mike.

humberklog

mike65 wrote: »

If matter were strinking wouldn't we notice? Or are we strinking very slowly?

Mike.

Wouldn't it be that we, as observing beings, wouldn't notice if matter was either expanding or shrinking if everything was doing it at the same rate? Or at least matter that was close enough to observe was moving at a near enough rate?
Wouldn't it be all relative to us? Kinda like the sand inm an egg timer filling and emptying. The doing it again and again. Expansion,retraction, expansion, retraction. If the sand falling is moving close to speed of light (and matter's expanding) the sand at the neck and above is now moving slower than when it had been falling (slower therefore reducing).

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

so we'd be shrinking while we're growing up even though we're growing?

I suppose that's why old people get really really small

0utpost31

Where does blueshift fall into this crazy shrinking theory?

humberklog

MistressMord wrote: »

I suppose that's why old people get really really small

Unless they were being shifted really really quickly. Like constantly firing them out of a catapult.