I'm saying just the opposite. The universe isn't shrinking, everything within it is. As shrinking residents of the universe, there appears to be much more space for us and between objects, but that's because we're getting smaller. along with every wave/particle acting in relation to the shrinking threads of the space-time fabric.

Imagine the universe is a closet... fill it with people... say we're packed in like sardines and have developed 1 unit of measurement, the "body width" or BW. the closet is 4'x4' (4 BWx4 BW) so we have a total of 16 people in the closet. the people each measure 1x1 within the closet universe. Shrink the people's width by 50% every minute. after 1 minute, they are 6"x6", 3"x3" after 2 minutes, 1.5"x1.5" after 3 and 3/4"x3/4" after 4... from outside the closet universe, if there is an outside, there has been no change(unless one looks inside the "closet dimension"). The closet is still 4'x4' but for those inside, it appears that the closet/ universe is expanding. Friends that were just 1 BW from each other are around 16 BW's away after 4 minutes and will be 32 BW's away in 5... While those that started farther from me are moving at a much faster velocity in relation to me at any given time... those that started at 2 BWs away are 32 BWs from me after 4 minutes and will be 64 BWs away in just a minute. That's twice as fast simply because they are farther away. The same is true for everyone within the closet with everyone else in every direction... I must confess though that before I shrank too much and lost contact, I locked eyes with this girl names Andromeda, so we're planning on meeting soon. Other than that, I'll eventually get too small (with the relative distance too great) to be able to contact anyone in this universe. Plus, I know that the speed of light is constant at approx. 1 million BW/sec since the threads in the fabric of space in this closet is shrinking right along with me, I soon won't even be able to see anyone else... If light had a constant of 50 BW per second, it's easy to see how contact is lost as relative to us, some vary far away objects seem to be moving faster than the speed of light, but in reality, we're simply shrinking (or the universe is expanding... I just don't know what room should be forced to give up floor space for our closet. Do we really think our closet is that special that it deserves to expand? More likely that we're just shrinking).

Edit: Even with light moving at a constant of about 1 million feet/sec. (or more correctly 1 million BWs per second in our closet universe), it wouldn't take too many minutes for the residents of the closet to be too "far" from each other to pass information or for light to travel the distance between any two people in the closet, but the cosmic radiation of their body heat would still be present from the earlier minutes when they were larger.

The "big-bang" gave people a picture of everything running away from a point into outerspace like an explosion. When the "expanding universe" is discussed, most people think of things within the universe like galaxies as opposed to the actual fabric of space-time that is expanding. "Expanding into what/where/when?" Seems like a more accurate mental image would be had if it were taught that the universe is constant in size (still a singularity?) but we, and everything within the universe is shrinking.


Way past my bedtime.
Aaron