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Letter: Time to abandon the big bang theory? (2)

Published 16 December 2020

From Nigel Tuersley, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Could the conundrum about the universe’s faster-than-expected expansion be illusory? Since it is red-shifted objects on which we are relying as evidence for this acceleration, could it not be that the space-time in which the matter is embedded is shrinking with distance, producing the same effect through a different route?

Issue no. 3313 published 19 December 2020

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