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Originally Posted by xelasnave
Gary
Do you think there is any chance that "they" are wrong about the universe expanding?
I know "tired light" is regarded as nonsense but really from an uninformed uneducated position it does not seem unreasonable.
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Hi Alex,
With such a bulk of independent observations of different phenomena,
there is now very little chance that the theory that the universe
is expanding is wrong.
In fact that evidence is at a point that it is now seemingly insurmountably
difficult to make it fit any other model.
One of the nails in the coffin for the "tired light" theory is home-grown.
The Brian Schmidt et. al. observations of the Type 1a supernovae
where their brightening and fading as a function of time was correlated
with their redshift and hence compellingly explained by time dilation
was something he talked about one year at the South Pacific Star Party
(SPSP) up at Wiruna. Unlike the later Nobel Prize ceremony, no bow ties were
required by audience members.
Concurrently Adam Riess et. al. did their own Type 1a supernovae survey
and came up with the same results, which not only put to rest the tired
light theory, but scored them the Nobel Prize for Physics at the
same ceremony in 2011.
Unlike Brian Schmidt, sadly Adam Riess didn't get to address the
attendees of the SPSP and thus also missed out on the opportunity
of hob-nobbing with us all in the Boy Scout sausage sizzle tent
soirée afterwards.
Paper by Riess et. al :-
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0804.3595.pdf