What if the universe isn't expanding? What if everything

what difference does it make?

and honestly what difference does it make if the earth is flat or round? it changes nothing about reality. it's probably better to disregard of your geometric notions of things in the world unless it's useful to do so.

>and honestly what difference does it make if the earth is flat or round? it changes nothing about reality.

Not the reality of someone who's never left their mother's basement perhaps

>>8998254
you're so incredibly stupid you don't know it.

The idea that everything is shrinking seems to be an easy way to visualize a universe that's both infinite and expanding

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>>8998248
everything shrinking is trivially impossible

Let's assume everything is shrinking. Therefore the Earth is also shrinking. This is imperceptible to us so obviously as the individual particles that the Earth is made of shrink, the spaces between those particles must also be shrinking.
So not only do things shrink, the space between things also shrinks.

But distant galaxies are receding faster than nearby galaxies. Which would imply that the space between us and those more-distant galaxies is not shrinking, but growing.

Now use your brain to reason why it's stupid to think that the universe is shrinking when the effects of that shrinkage would be completely opposed to ALL of the observations cosmologists make.

>>8998543
the point is that the space ISN'T shrinking, ya dingus. the things IN that space are shrinking, which is why distance between them seems to grow

>>8998543
u are a faggot and i hate u NIGGER

>>8998248

What if your wife orbits my dick?

>>8998575
Right. Due to various forces local objects seem to stay in correct proximity to each other. But when you get outside the solar system the gravity between things isn't enough to keep them together at the rate they are shrinking.