Hi Anders Lindman - this (in the context of the expansion of the universe) has been explained to Bjarne many times before.
He still goes on about his fantasy that astronomers use physical rulers to measure the distance to stars and galaxies

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Yeehh mann, and it probably also have been explained between 117 and 2018 times to innocent student where after they begun to believe it was; CETAIN KNOGLEDE - THE HOLY TRUTH.
But could also it also not have been caused due to dark elephants ? or dark ufo,s' ? - or the 29 th dark dimension ? , etc etc etc or other dark turbo fantasies not confirmed by the bright scientific method ?
The universe do not expand.
Extremely stretched / deformed space, - begun to “release” the deformation / tension of space due to a BigChrunch 13 to 15 billion years ago,, - because matter in a previous universe exploded.
It was possible because extreme gravity was a result of exstreme speed, and this is excactly what we shall expect in a BigChrunch..
The Universe did not come from NOTHING; - this is ONLY turbo speculation as well as all the other necessary assumption, build on that speculative foundation.
Extreme stretched / deformed space begun to release when space from billion of stars begun to explode; - this process is still going on, because of huge distance it takes time for the "gravitational waves" (from billion of stars) to reach the edge of the physical universe. - This is what dark energy really is , - it takes time to "complete" ..
The result is the opposite as expanding space.
Space is released whereby distances in the EM specter are getting SHORTER and SHORTER during time, - whereby light (waves) from the past comparing to today
looks LONGER.
"We" have turn it 180 degree on its head, -
it was possible because the scientific method was ignored and only turbo fantasy allowed.
General Relativity alone can handle Redshift, - light from distant stars .
The misunderstood expression; Cosmological redshift, is nothing but
gravitational redshift.
Understanding this leads to that now we don’t need to insane ideas; - that all energy of the universe was into a point of nothing and “something” (probably God or Allah) got it out from there, or the nuts turbo fantasy that gravity counteract dark energy (that don’t exist) - and plenty more of such turbo fantasy assumption, - is also not necessary anymore .
A lot counteract the BB speculation; the list gets longer and longer every year.
For example stars and galaxies do NOT shows the elementary particle contents predicted by BB, you can read about this many places at the internet
What is this big hole in the Universe doing – NOT predicted by BB
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/1548/hole-a-billion-light-years-across-discovered
What is the dark flow doing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_flow - BB do not predict it
Read this top 30 problem with BigBang
http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/BB-top-30.asp
And as i wrote every year the list is getting longer.