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Old 12-August-2007, 04:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Nereid View Post
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Do you have some equations (maths, numbers, and stuff) to support this?

Specifically, what mechanism (or class of mechanisms) are you assuming is doing the brightening, expanding (and dimming, contracting)?
Quite simply, the size of the sky is equal to the size of the sky. So if you have a complicated lens over it, whatever parts get magnified, some other part gets shrunk to exactly compensate.

But I think I got the answer thanks because although the popularized article is very weak, the journal article is not. It does explain that it is based on the nearness to the galaxies.