Hi Kilop
You stated the following:

“Evidence seems to indicate that local gravity overcomes the expansion--in other words, as the expansion of space draws things apart, gravity draws them together again faster than they can be drawn apart. So your conclusions aren't true, necessarily.”

Fields are the description of space-time. A gravitational field effects the location of an electron in an atom, even though the primary influence on the electron around the atom is the electromagnetic field. We know this because fields are interdependent. (Recently even gravitational quantum relationships have recently been detected, which is really amazing, sorry I do not have the link). Fields help describe the structure of the universe

If the expansion of space is a field like expansion, then why assume that the “faster” gravitational effects resist the expansion? It would be like assuming that the electron is not influence by gravity.

If one is going to observe a pervasive feature of the universe, such as the expansion of space, it make more sense to assume it is first uniform, rather to say it works everywhere but here. Particularly since electromagnetic and nuclear fields tend to indicate a universal interrelated structure.

In the next few postings I hope to provide evidence that the proposed relationships are also valid.

Snowflake