Hi Russ waters
While the standard description of the expansion of space is as you say, only relevant only on longer distances, this is not true for the proposed theory of a uniform expansion. (
www.uniformexpansion.com)
Matter itself is part of that expansion. As space expands around an atom it produces the effects associated with quantum physics. The proposed expansion is not only relevant at “longer” distances it is also relevant for the extremely close.
I think you misunderstand my description of the uniform expansion of space. An example, if you have two objects and they double in size, and they double in distance between them, and you double the size of all the rulers, How far apart are the rulers? As far as we can directly measure, the same distance. This is a much different kind of expansion, as indicated by the very different descriptions of what would be measured.
Snowflake