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Alternate explanation of red shift of distant stars

by naveen99 on 10/7/25, 3:32 AM with 3 comments

I was thinking about an alternate explanation of red shift of distant stars: Infinite universe would have 0 average gravity by symmetry.

We only see the near side of distant galaxy clusters contracting towards their centers away from us. Light from far side (which would be blue shifted) is relatively blocked by the near side.

Farther away objects need to be brighter for us to see them directly. Which means they are further along in their contraction, which makes them move faster, increasing red shift.

So , can we get rid of the Big Bang theory, dark matter, and dark energy ?

  • by naveen99 on 10/7/25, 3:53 AM

  • by naveen99 on 10/7/25, 6:27 AM

    Red shift appears mostly very far away… where the empty space is not resolved so much… hydrogen in infinite time universe is easy to form with radioactive decay, and other processes that produce hydrogen and helium from larger elements and supernovae, the only real bang in the sky. If anything , 14B years is not enough to combine carbon, oxygen, gold, uranium on earth from different classes of supernova .

  • by naveen99 on 10/7/25, 6:40 AM

    elliptical galaxies do contract, but I mean larger structures like galaxy clusters or bigger.