The Electric Universe theory (disparaged by Anton Petrov) says that Dark Matter is a misinterpretation of red shift data. It's age not distance.
And that it's a steady state Universe.
I get confounded by things like how far away it the microwave background? If the expanding Universe [theory] is that the farthest objects move away from us faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, how can there be a microwave background at all?
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