Mad Question that just ocurred to me

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Well I'm surprised.

Just did a search on "is the universe expanding or are we shrinking?" on Google and this came up:

http://www.science20.com/hammock_physici...ing-118673

I'm having a rather proud moment because I promise you all I had no idea this existed.

"Our model should be interpreted as a new complementary picture of cosmology, not as opposing the more standard picture of an expanding universe. The different pictures are equivalent, describing the same physics. This can be seen by a redefinition of the metric, which leads to the “Einstein frame” with constant Planck mass and particle masses and an expanding universe. In the Einstein frame the big bang has a singularity, however. The possibility of different choices of fields describing the same reality may be called “field relativity”, in analogy to general relativity for the choice of different coordinate systems. Field relativity underlies the finding that strikingly different pictures, as an expanding or a shrinking universe, can describe the same reality."