OK. wait wait wait, unless light is not a constant, or at least only constant to us who are shrinking...Queequeg wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:01 amOh, right... the lower frequencies... there still might be some weird space-time glitch... but my theory is getting less elegant.Kim O'Hara wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:54 pmIt's a good idea but not a new one.Queequeg wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2017 10:53 pm I watched that video Lucas posted and started thinking about the expanding universe...
time and space is, for lack of a better word, malleable, right? Is it possible the universe is not actually expanding, and rather, we're all shrinking?
This might not be the right place to look for an answer to that.
Decades ago (I'm not saying how many ) I read a SF short story with exactly this premise. As I remember it, the people in it only started noticing something weird was happening when the lowest-frequency radio waves started disappearing from the radio astronomers' spectrum. By the time they worked out that the reason was that the universe was already smaller than a couple of wavelengths across, mid-frequencies were dropping out as the universe continued to shrink ...
Kim
LOL amateur physics!
I'm going to ask and report back.