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Grav-wave eggheads come closer to nailing down Hubble's Constant – the universe's speedy rate of expansion

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Re: All of this assumes...

The inverse square law means that things like gravity do not scale with linear dimensions, so we would have to assume extremely complicated contraction laws applying to different forces. This fails the Ockham's Law test - expansion is much simpler.

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