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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by seszett on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:00PM (#34360861)
When I read this, it seems to me like this is more or less the same as saying that the speed of light is decreasing, but I am probably wrong?
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by jhoechtl on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:12PM (#34360984)
Is this something anybody ever thought out to look at things this way? Sounds like an intriguing Gedankenexperiment
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by eigenket on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:55PM (#34361427)
Yeah, ideas like this are usually called "tired light" models, they have been extensively explored for the last hundred years or so. A lot of these models have been shown to be false by experiments, but I guess if you try you can probably cook up models which haven't been falsified by anything yet.
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by dpkirchner on Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:35PM (#34362411)
Like if you calculated the speed not in meters per second but fraction-of-the-universe per second?
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by cout on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:23AM (#34364260)
What if space isn't expanding and we are just shrinking?
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by make3 on Monday January 16, 2023 @06:16PM (#34406852)
only if the expansion is really equal everywhere I guess
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