In my Wuh Lax vision of the universe, we are flying past each other all the time. Our world is like a giant space ship that is carrying us along. My mind then leaps to the notion that the spaceship is getting larger and larger and we inside the spaceship are getting larger and larger. This view, the Wuh Lax view of the world, is but one of many.
We have the illusion that we are a constant size, but we are only constant in size in a relative sense. All the freedom that we have to move sideways and around our world results not from the existence of space but from the fact that we are expanding at an alarming rate into nothingness.
As we expand what happens to the networks that make us up. Surely they disintegrate gradually for how can such complexity hold together. If you want to shield yourself from the elements as you explode through them, you build a large circle or sphere around you that shields you from anything that you many collide with.
What saves you is that most everything else is also blowing apart at an alarming rate and the logic of networks of force fields between you and these other networks ensure your temporary safety.
The obvious question to ask is whether we are expanding at a rate that has always been constant. The answer is a guess, but I would guess that our rate of expansion has been variable in the past and may be variable in the future and is possibly variable at present. What we would need to measure is our rate of expansion relative to the speed of light, which in the Wuh Lax universe is zero.
What we might think is thus that the speed of light is a variable when it is our speed that is variable. We do have a serious practical problem, however, for the descendents of Wuh lax!
The problem is that while the causal networks and fields that make us up are exploding, the much larger star and galaxy bodies that are everywhere around us are being blown away from us at an accelerating rate and will disappear from our cognizance unless we accelerate towards them. The very real issue is that we cannot accelerate in all directions at once and really need to decide now which portion of the super galaxy structure we wish to be networked with. If we choose incorrectly we may network with a dangerous part of the universe rather than one that is relatively more benign. Like spores of pollen we can go off in all directions if we also so wish. But, then the networks linkling us together are spread so thin that we cannot recover information about our past.
The beauty of light not moving in the Wuh Lax world is that it forms the basis of information exchange between different points in our line of expansion. Wherever, we have been, and everything we do is recorded in light. All our past is retained by light. Light has another amazing property.
Light seems to be apart from our network and is not causally impacted by it other than it is revealed to us as we expand because of leakages in our underlying causal space ships, both large, such as earth, and small, as our bodies, and even smaller as the tiny networks of electrons and up or down quarks that make us up. Some leakages we create ourselves as in production of the atom bomb, but most leakages occur because of holes in our causal networks that release light into our moving world. An even tinier world of quantum matter envelopes our expansion!
The Wuh Lax explanation of this quantum world is that it has recorded our expansion through it many times. Remaining as a background to our motion, it has recorded everything before and has the imprint within it of an infinitude of trips we have made through it time and time again.
What is interesting about light is that it seems to us to be both a particle and a wave at the same time. An infinity of light seems to occupy our inner places, the places where there are leakages.
