" ... the fact that light is being used as a stable frame puts it in three dimensional space, thus arguing the scale is increasing four dimensionally, that everything is on the surface of that balloon, doesn't add up."
Then you are trying to add apples and oranges, John. Sometimes I wish that balloon analogy had never been made (and that goes for the "rubber sheet geometry" of general relativity, too) because it requires some mathematical understanding of higher dimension manifolds.
"The point I keep trying to make is that relativity already contains a very simple and obvious solution, that galaxies are gravity wells, effectively pulling in what is expanding between them. Mathematically the space expanding between galaxies is collapsing into them, resulting in the overall flat space being measured."
Simple, yes. Obvious, no. And a solution to the equations of relativity? -- not possible, since we know the universe is expanding.
"Physically, since what is falling into galaxies is therefore matched by what is expanding out from them and radiating for billions of lightyears, an area far larger then the area of mass contraction, light is the cosmological constant."
Only in a steady state universe.
"The only real theoretical impediment to this model is the assumption photons travel as magical point particles, whose wave function is smeared across the universe."
That's your own assumption. Not of any theorist I know of.
"If we consider the possibility that photons actually expand when released and what is received is a sample of the wave front, much as Eric Reiter's experiments showed, the optical explanation for redshift would seem much more obvious, but that would mean dismantling the cultural edifice of Big Bang theory and once a belief system gains sufficient momentum, it takes alot to kill it. Probably a wooden stake through the heart."
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. If you drop the hyperbole and rhetoric and take the Hoyle-Gold steady state cosmology as your model, you might make a sensible argument. Just filling in the gaps with your personal beliefs doesn't enhance it.
Best,
Tom
