"EL" wrote in message
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We always look at compounded histories of light, and nothing is where
it seems to be now. Thus, the most outer is not expanding in the sense
of going away from us now, but rather WAS going away very long time ago
from where we came to be before we ever come to be. If what we see now
to have been going away then was coming closer later, much later that
we need a long time to realise that it is contracting, then why does
anyone persist to claim that the universe must be expanding now if we
do not even what light looks like now if it needed billions of years to
arrive to smash our numb senses?

First, there is a parallel to the concept of escape
velocity. If you through a stone in the air and
measure it over a short period, you can predict when
it will reach its maximum height or if it is moving
so fast that it will never stop. Distant galaxies
are moving away from us sufficiently fast that they
would never stop given the gravitational slowing
produced by the measured mean density of matter.
However, they would always be slowing down.

Second, when we look at galaxies closer to us, we see
light that was emitted more recently. Measurements of
Type Ia supernovae indicate that expansion in recent
times is actually greater than in the past so the
galaxies are accelerating away from us.

George