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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by cygx on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:56AM (#21978225)
However, if you were to change our relativistic reference frame to match a distance galaxy's [...]

In general, you can't do that: There's no distance parallelism in curved spacetimes...

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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by bananabreakfast on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:24PM (#21983642)
Well, curved spacetimes only matter when you're dealing with gravitational redshift, which we aren't in this situation.
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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by cygx on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:38PM (#21983839)
Why would you think that? FLRW spacetime isn't Minkowski space, thus has nonzero curvature.
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