"Painius" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:35:07 -0700 (PDT), Double-A
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On Oct 16, 12:32 am, Painius wrote:
From Wikipedia...

"Georges Henri Joseph douard Lema tre (17 July 1894 20 June 1966)
was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the
Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). He was the first person to
propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely
misattributed to Edwin Hubble.


Yes, Hubble would have nothing to do with such nonsense!

Maybe not at first - but then, when he did come around and embrace the
proposal, Hubble gave it scientific credibility. He looked out and
saw faraway galaxies that seemed to be rushing away from us at
tremendous speeds. He noted that the farther away those galaxies were
from us, the faster away from us they appeared to go.

So he interpreted his observations of those faraway galaxies to mean
that the Universe indeed *must* be expanding. And it was never
questioned that those faraway galaxies' behaviors had taken place
billions of years ago, that there was no way of telling what those
galaxies were doing right now, that it was the height of human hubris
to glean from those observations that the Universe is expanding NOW.

Astronomers don't have any trouble with the thought that we see our
own star, the Sun, as it was about eight minutes ago, because the Sun
is about 8 light minutes away. They have no problem with the fact
that if the star Sirius were to blow up today, we wouldn't know about
it until about 8.6 years from now, because Sirius is 8.6 light years
away. So why do they have so much trouble with the thought that if a
galaxy is racing away from us, that may have been what it WAS doing
billions of years ago? How can they take that observation and
conclude that the Universe is expanding NOW???

Let me help you out, dumbass. When you look in every direction and all you
see is Galaxies that are red shifted identically for their particular
distance from us, then there is a pretty good chance that the Universe is
expanding. If it were just one or two, one might concede the point. But
every single galaxy in EVERY direction displays a red shift, which pretty
much speaks for itself ... unless you are Panintheass, naturally.