This is pretty fascinating, but I’m surely not educated enough to understand its veracity.
Is the basic take here that we are assuming distance as causal for the way we observe a lot of light sources, and it’s possible instead we are surrounded by a large gravitational field creating that distortion instead?
I think it probably should be illegal. My first thought hearing it was a thing was that you could easily mass buy votes this way.
If I’m running for election I just funnel unlimited money from interest groups into the bet against me regardless of odds, creating a financial incentive for individuals to bet for me. People are now directly financially enriched by third parties if I win, and are thusly incentivized to vote for me.