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Originally Posted by Baxter Renegade

New research suggests the universe may not actually be expanding... several scientists are jumping on board:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/s...tml?id=8807838

Speculative but at least seem to account for current observations, so far anyway. Usually newspaper + unpublished arXiv paper = nonsense.

I think the article title is a bit sensationalist since in this case the universe is still expanding in any meaningful sense; distance between galaxies measured by measuring sticks is increasing. This just uses math to trade a singularity for a scalar field. But that might be a good thing.

Interested to see if it gets published.