Recently I came across a theory that the Universe is both expanding and contracting in different areas.
This seems intuitively correct to me, and links in to Bucky's isotropic grid as space can be filled with cubeoctahedrons and octahedrons that pulsate together as in this animation below.
I belive it was made by the team as http://www.cosmometry.net
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