EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE | 2009-01-11
Since I did the last piece and everybody decided to go off on their own subject, I can use BUGS as just the place of record for my meanderings.
OUR universe -- there is no reason to call it THE universe -- is supposed to be expanding at an increasing rate. If it is to maintain a certain rate of increase in three dimensions, it would have to expand at an expanding rate.  The equal and opposite reaction to that might be gravity.
As far as I know, all this is still based on the red shift. Like the strong force in the atom, a force can exist which doesn't obey the distance squared law. It may be that the red shift is different at a distance or there are curves in space we don't know about yet which produce the apparent red shift.
This is a comment on your comments. My mind can wander, too.