
Originally Posted by
Gary Anthony Kent

Originally Posted by
Dishmaster

Originally Posted by
Gary Anthony Kent
There it is again. That logical inconsistency that keeps popping up. If more distant galaxies are receding at a greater rate, then less distant galaxies (closer to us in time and in space) are receding at a lesser rate. That is, the expansion rate must be slowing down, decelerating, not accelerating. This is plain English. But it is being interpreted in a deliberately backward fashion in order to preserve pet preconceptions.
Am I understanding you correctly? Are you saying that the fact that we see closer galaxies receding at a lower speed than more distant galaxies is evidence that the expansion is slowing down? I hope not, because this is a huge misconception. Please clarify.
Egad!
There must be something that doctors can prescribe for comprehensional dyslexia.
The RATE of expansion must be slowing down for this to be true. Therefore, the expansion RATE of the universe is currently DECELERATING.
Being wed to Dark Energy must be like being married to a whore. I will not reiterate.
You will find, if you study he nature of
metric expansion, that recession rate always increases with distance, whether the expansion is accelerating, decelerating, or constant. It would pay you to study up on an expanding metric.
The distance between things is thought to be increasing at the same rate, at any given time, but that rate can change, over time.
So imagine, for instance, that the distance between things scaled up at the same rate, across the universe. If one measure of distance doubles in size, so will another double in size. The whole thing is expanding. It takes the same time for something 1 billion light-years away to become 2 billion ly away, as it does for something 10 billon ly away to become 20 billion ly away. The whole universe scales up at the same rate - but the further away something is, the faster it has receded - a galaxy 1 billion ly away receded by 1 billion ly in the same time as a galaxy 10 billion ly away receded by 10 billion ly!
If what was 1 billion ly has doubled to become 2 billion ly, then that will be true for all distances. 1,2,3,4,5 becomes 2,4,6,8,10.
That is the nature of metric expansion and it holds true whatever the rate of expansion does over time, as long as it is always the same across the universe at any given time. So, the observation that the further away something is, the faster it recedes, only means we are dealing with an expanding metric, and has no bearing on how the rate of expansion has changed.
You are using a misconception about the theory to question the theory.