Maybe it's not that the universe is expanding...

[JHL]

...but that it's imploding:

The densest object in the universe is the proton (5.96 × 1014 g/cm3). In 1983, numerical calculations on large computers predicted that as the temperature is raised the colour‑repelling physical vacuum should flip into the simple vacuum, of which protons consist, at a temperature of 2 × 1012 K,[15] which is the approximate temperature of the proton. The proton's ultrahigh temperature is a consequence of the proton's ultrarapid compression by the internal force of gravity, and, simultaneously, is the factor that makes the proton highly resistant to compression by external forces. Since material standards of length are themselves made of shrinking protons, the exponentially accelerating self‑gravitational shrinkage of the proton can only be inferred from the relative expansion of intergalactic spaces, which are less dense and thus self‑gravitationally shrink progressively slower than the proton:

All change is relative. The universe is expanding relatively to our common material standards; our material standards are shrinking relatively to the size of the universe. The theory of the "expanding universe" might also be called the theory of the "shrinking atom". <...>

Let us then take the whole universe as our standard of constancy, and adopt the view of a cosmic being whose body is composed of intergalactic spaces and swells as they swell. Or rather we must now say it keeps the same size, for he will not admit that it is he who has changed. Watching us for a few thousand million years, he sees us shrinking; atoms, animals, planets, even the galaxies, all shrink alike; only the intergalactic spaces remain the same. The earth spirals round the sun in an ever‑decreasing orbit. It would be absurd to treat its changing revolution as a constant unit of time. The cosmic being will naturally relate his units of length and time so that the velocity of light remains constant. Our years will then decrease in geometrical progression in the cosmic scale of time. On that scale man's life is becoming briefer; his threescore years and ten are an ever‑decreasing allowance. Owing to the property of geometrical progressions an infinite number of our years will add up to a finite cosmic time; so that what we should call the end of eternity is an ordinary finite date in the cosmic calendar. But on that date the universe has expanded to infinity in our reckoning, and we have shrunk to nothing in the reckoning of the cosmic being.

We walk the stage of life, performers of a drama for the benefit of the cosmic spectator. As the scenes proceed he notices that the actors are growing smaller and the action quicker. When the last act opens the curtain rises on midget actors rushing through their parts at frantic speed. Smaller and smaller. Faster and faster. One last microscopic blurr of intense agitation. And then nothing.

—Eddington, Arthur. The Expanding Universe CUP, 1933, pp. 90–92

In 1998, Adam Riess and his team discovered that the apparent expansion of intergalactic spaces is accelerating. On 5 April 2016, Adam Riess et al. announced that the rate of the acceleration is itself increasing—over the three years since 21 March 2013, when the Planck space observatory published the local Hubble constant value, the apparent expansion of intergalactic spaces had accelerated by nine percent more than expected.[16] It means that over the three years from 2013 to 2016, the speed of the proton's exponentially accelerating self‑gravitational shrinkage relative to the intergalactic spaces had increased by nine percent more than expected. The 13.8‑billion‑year‑long "drama for the benefit of the cosmic spectator" has come to its end.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poten ... ing_sphere

[orrery]

I would say its inapplicable because once again spectral red shift is being used as the basis of this expansion myth and spectral red shift implies no such thing.

[toni]

Hi JHL

This is a very interesting topic and very difficult to find any information about it.
In my understanding, all motion is a spiral and conical, if that makes sense. Movement from the base of the cone to the apex of the wave and back. Knowing this, we can determine if the planets are rushing away from each other or coming together. In some of the old texts and MU teachings, switching from one direction to the other is called the Red Shift. With today's knowledge, we know that the universe is cellular - a combination of red and blue lights or as most people know it - as north and south or plus and minus.
Arthur's explanation for the proton is very vague and hard to make any sense of it. The proton travels in inverse square ratio and the electron in direct ratio through octaves. The hardest known atom is on the end of the omeganon which is, I believe, the tomion element. After this moment, the pressure is so high that everything explodes and alphanon begins. This is a very brief explanation and I hope it can help you.

Regards,
Toni