How do scientist know that outer space is expanding everyday?

Question

How do scientist know that outer space is expanding everyday?

Answer 1

That was the old big bang theory.

Now we are not so sure. Many believe the red shifts of most galaxies can be explained better by

1.Gravitational redshifts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation...

2.Dark matter halos may be repulsive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter...

3.Dark energy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

Answer 2

The evidence for space expansion is the Hubble red shift. The short and sweet for this question is that when something is going farther away from you, its visible light will be more toward the red side of the light spectrum, if it is heading toward you, it heads more toward the blue shift. I included a link to wikipedia that explains it in detail :)

Answer 3

red shift. Inflation theory.  

Answer 4

A few years after Albert Einstein had developed his famous (and by now very well tested!) theory of General Relativity (GR) in 1915 he applied it to the entire universe and found something remarkable. The theory predicts that the whole universe is either expanding or contracting. There really isn't any other alternative. To have the universe staying static is like a pencil balanced on its point... possible, but very, very unlikely and not liable to last for very long.

In 1929 the astronomer Edwin Hubble measured the velocities of a large selection of galaxies. He expected that about equal numbers would be moving toward and away from us. After all, the Earth isn't a particularly special place in the universe.

Instead, he discovered that almost all galaxies are moving away from us!

Since the time of Hubble we have observed millions of galaxies with better equipment and verified his results. With the exception of a small handful of galaxies close to us, every galaxy is moving away from us.

And in fact, the farther away a galaxy is the faster it is moving away from us. This fits in very well with Einstein's predictions. The galaxies seem to be receding from us because the entire universe is getting larger. The space in between the galaxies is stretching! And the farther away a galaxy is the more space there is to stretch so the faster the galaxy appears to move away from us.

Over the past half-century astronomers have observed many other facts about the universe that all point to the fact that the universe is expanding. While a very inventive person might be able to explain away one or at most two of these discoveries, the expansion of the universe is the only theory that can explain all of them at once. And with each passing year the evidence piles up higher.