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Exactly!! David, you hit the nail on the head! The redshift observations are good, however, they are grossly misinterpreted when considered as evidence of a Big Bang. You asked: "In other words, is it a different explanation than expansion?" Yes. The neomechanical explanation is that redshifted galaxies indicate that the speed of light varied in the distant past, because the density of the aether medium was different than it is now. By considering the "observable universe" as part of a microcosm that we call the Local Mega Vortex, then the Local Mega Vortex should be expected to evolve -- just as every other microcosm does. Consequently, the redshift observations, along with the "dark flow" observations form NASA and along with the spiral galaxy rotation distributions from Mike Longo (professor emeritus from Michigan), sere as strong evidence that the observable universe is rotating -- and part of a massive, large-scale vortex. The beauty of the Local Mega Vortex Theory is that all of the evidence is coming from conventional astronomers and physicists! Some links associated with the dark-flow observations and Longo's spiral galaxy distribution ratios follow..... Dark flow refers to the synchronized movements of all galaxies within a large area of the sky. During 2008, a team of NASA researchers discovered this unexpected motion. [Kashlinsky et al., 2008] Since then, a trio of independent astrophysicists confirmed the dark flow. [Watkins et al., 2009] More recently, another team of NASA researchers expanded the study and reconfirmed the discovery. [Kashlinsky et al., 2010] Now, cosmologists must integrate dark flow into their models of the universe. Kashlinsky, A.; Atrio-Barandela, F.; Kocevski, D.; Ebeling, H.; [2008]. A Measurement of Large-Scale Peculiar Velocities of Clusters of Galaxies: Results and Cosmological Implications. The Astrophysical Journal, 686: L49?L52, Oct 20, 2008; Amer. Astron. Society. Kashlinsky, A.; Atrio-Barandela, F.; Ebeling, H.; Edge, A.; Kocevski, D., [2010]. A New Measurement of the Bulk Flow of X-ray Luminous Clusters of Galaxies. Astrophysics Journal, (2010), 712, L81-l85; arXiv:0910.4958v3 [astro-ph.CO] 11 Mar 2010. A different team of researchers who confirmed the NASA claim.... Watkins, R.; Feldman, H.A.; Hudson, M.J., [2009]. Consistently Large Cosmic Flows on Scales of 100 h?1 Mpc: A Challenge for the Standard ?CDM Cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 392, Issue 2, pages 743-756. In a paper entitled Detection of a Dipole in the Handedness of Spiral Galaxies with Redshifts z~0.04, a research team headed by University of Michigan physicist Michael Longo found that more galaxies rotate in a counter-clockwise direction than clockwise. The upshot was that 7% more galaxies rotate in a counter-clockwise direction than clockwise. In the June 9, 2011 edition of Physics: University of Michigan, Carol Rabuck discussed the significance of Longo?s findings: ?An excess of one type [of rotation] over the other would be evidence for a breakdown of mirror symmetry, or, in physics speak, a parity violation on cosmic scales.... Longo estimates the chance that the excess could be a cosmic accident is something like one in a million. The effect extended out to distances over 600 million light years. ?If verified, this data would be extremely important because it is almost universally accepted that on sufficiently large scales the universe is isotropic (no special direction),? said Professor Longo. If spiral galaxies tend to have their rotation axes aligned in one direction, it means that there is also a preferred direction in the universe. This violates another tenet of astrophysics that assumes the universe has no special direction or is isotropic.? [Rabuck, 2011] Longo, M.J., [2011]. Detection of a Dipole in the Handedness of Spiral Galaxies with Redshifts z~0.04. Physics Letters B, Volume 699, Issue 4, 16 May 2011, Pages 224-229. Rabuck, C., [2011]. An Alice-in-Wonderland Universe? Physics, Univ. of Michigan, June 9, 2011. http://www.lsa.umich.edu/physics/news/ci.physicistmichaellongodiscoversanapparentcosmicparityviolationthu9jun2011_ci.detail Retrieved July 15, 2011. For a balanced view, the following Wikipedia article gives criticisms of the dark-flow measurements: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_flow Website for Mike Longo: Professor Emeritus at Michigan http://www.lsa.umich.edu/physics/directory/emeritus/ci.longomichael_ci.detail. Importantly, Longo found a completely different way than the NASA team in showing that the observable universe is spinning -- just like the other cosmological spirals that we observe!

David: Right. The idea that the universe is expanding was always silly. Now we know why: the assumption that c was constant. Aether deniers, like Einstein, have no medium for light. That is why they have to objectify light motion as enigmatic massless particles or wave-particles. In UCT (www.universalcycletheory.com), we speculate that aether is densest where baryonic matter is rarest. The miss-named ?gravitational redshift? supports this. When light is emitted from celestial bodies, it enters regions in which the aether/baryonic matter ratio increases. Light velocity, like all wave velocities, is a function of the density of the medium. The regions between galactic clusters would have the densest aether and the highest light velocity. Thus, 10 cycles at 1.1c would have wavelengths 10% longer than 10 cycles at c. As Hubble always suspected, most of the galactic redshift is a function of distance travelled through intergalactic regions. The Doppler Effect still occurs, of course, but it would simply be a function of the motion of the source, not its distance from the observer.