Comment by plorkyeran
2 days ago
His theory of gravity (everything in the universe is exponentially growing in size at a continuous rate, shrinking the gaps between things) was a fascinating thought experiment for me as a kid and I enjoyed thinking through how it could work and why it wouldn't work. Finding out later that he at least at one point took it seriously as a potential explanation for how the universe works was very surprising to me.
> shrinking the gaps between things
Hubble showed the opposite is the case, though...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law