Ian Goddard,

What is going to confuse them the most is your checker board example, with a Euclidean checker board that has no center, and the x= = =x example above. This is not the way the universe works. And I see teenagers all over the internet begging for people to explain to them what’s really going on, because they can’t understand all this hocus-pocus nonsense about “expanding space”.

For 50 years the astronomers and the university text books said “the distant galaxies move through space”. Only when astronomers found superluminal galaxies that seemed to violate Einstein’s proclamation about the “speed limit”, did some start claiming that the galaxies are really “stationary in space” and it is “space” that “expands”. That’s a crackpot theory. That’s just plain nuts. Stationary galaxies that do not “move through space” but that are “carried along by expanding space” is a recent crackpot invention in astronomy that I didn’t have to put up with during the first 50 years of my life.

When I built a 6 inch telescope when I was 14 years old in 1956, I didn’t have to put up with any of this new-age mysticism baloney in astronomy.