[JoeSchem]

Einstein's cosmological constant also doesn't work for the observed universe. Einstein felt that there was a built-in red shift with distance -- no doppler effect required. However, the effect turned out to be too small to be observed. I've often wondered if the Red Shift we do observe is Einstein's cosmological constant in action. But that would imply that the universe is much, much smaller than we perceive. Spiral galaxies became dusty star clusters, quasars become normal stars red-shifted by the cosmological constant.

A silly idea, but it would also explain why we're not seeing a quantum blurring effect when we look at supposedly distant galaxies. IE, the galaxies aren't distant enough to have a blurring effect!

[PatrickHenry]

... the galaxies aren't distant enough to have a blurring effect!

I think that's been ruled out. I don't pretend to completely understand this, but Lyman alpha systems give evidence consistent with the size of the universe indicated by stellar redshifts.