What if(heresy warning) something is amiss with our theory of the cosmos?

For one thing, the Big Bang Theory cannot be falsified, as whenever there is a gap between prediction and observation, some otherwise invisible force of nature is added and everything goes merrily along. What if accountants could just write in a figure and call it “dark money,” whenever they find a gap in the books?

For one thing, this dark energy isn’t causing the expansion to accelerate, because the initial expansion started off at nearly the speed of light. What was predicted was the rate slowed at a constant rate, presumably due to gravity, yet what was found was that it dropped off rapidly, then settled into a more constant rate. To use a ballistics analogy, it would be like the universe was shot out of a cannon, then after it slowed a bit, a rocket motor kicked in.

Now looking at it outward, from our point of view, redshift starts off slowly, then eventually goes parabolic.

Before Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, the first patch was when they discovered that redshift increases proportionally in all directions, creating the effect that we appear to be at the center of the universe. So it was changed from an expansion in space, to an expansion of space, because “spacetime!”

Which would seem to totally ignore the reason for spacetime, in the first place, that General Relativity is based on the fact the speed of light is measured as a Constant, in all frames. If intergalactic light is being redshifted, than it is not Constant to intergalactic space! Presumably if they are being dilated equally, the speed of light would increase, as space expands, but redshift requires more lightyears, not expanded light years.

So two metrics of space are being derived from the same intergalactic light. One based on the spectrum and one based on the speed.

Given that it is supposedly expanding relative to the speed, then the speed is still being treated as the denominator.

Now we are at the center of our point of view, so an optical effect might be worth considering, presumably one compounding on itself, creating the parabolic rate increase, attributed to Dark Energy.

The original reason for Big Bang Theory is the only way for light to redshift is recession of the source, but it has been observed this only applies to single spectrum light. Multispectrum light ”packets” do redshift over distance, as the higher spectrums dissipate faster than the lower ones. Which would raise the issue of whether photons are irreducible, or simply the quanta light interacts with matter. so are we seeing individual photons that have traveled billions of lightyears, or are we sampling a wave front?

In which case, the background radiation would be the solution to Olber’s paradox. the light of infinite sources, shifted off the visible spectrum.

Waiting on the James Webb to study that background radiation.

The issue of Dark Matter raises other questions. Say what if gravity is wave collapse and it extends across everything, starting with photons collapsing out of a light field? Then gravity is not so much a property of matter, as matter is an effect of gravity, this wave collapse? Then we are just not adding in the wave collapse not associated with matter.

Speculative, but then how long will future generations of cosmologists go chasing after multiverses?