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jim77
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Another question for you all. What evidence for an expanding universe is there besides redshift. I am a layman and to me it seems like it would be simpler to find another explanation for the spectral shift of light as it passes through millions of light years of space (say some kind of lensing effect caused by warps in space (not that I know what that means) or the gravitational effects of the bodies from which it emanates or passes) than to throw common sense out the window and assert a universe out of nothing, inflation (why doesn't the gravity of the newborn universe collapse it into itself, I thought nothing could move faster than light,etc.) and all the other suppositions that separate you geniuses from we mortals. One more question along the same lines. I love those astronomy documentaries but I was troubled when I heard one scientist say that the universe was 13 billion years old and any scientist who disagreed was a "crackpot". Was this was just an unfortunate remark or does it reflect the consensus in higher physics? thanks again.
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