[mountainboy]

now you're thinking rationally.

research "tired light". There are many competing theories.

Maybe read "Seeing Red" by Halton Arp, or anything by Tom Van Flandern. Or the book "Pushing Gravity". Or the electric universe guys, or subquantum kinetics, or modern mechanics, or plasma cosmology, or weber dynamics, or infinite universe, pretty much anything but the standard model actually.

be careful though, you might find yourself exposed to ideas that establishment status quo "science" tries hard to ignore.