I would like to propose a fun conceptual model that can readily explain all the observational universe.

 

Picture is we created a house of mirrors. We position the mirrors at various long distances so that the light reflected between all the mirrors takes various amounts of time to return to us. The time delay and the reflections of time delay would allow one to see the step by step history of their visit in the house of mirrors reflected back to them at the same time real time events are being reflected.

If we also allow our house of mirrors to expand with a uniforn velocty from center, each reflection will be red shifted and the more times the light is reflected back and forth will result in the most additive red shift. This will create an illusion that the events from the beginning of our visit are accelerating away from us at the highest velocity. If we go into our house of mirrors with a group of friends and then scatter, each person would view themselves as the center, while the history of our and everyone else's visits would create a diversity of real time, historical and red shifted data.

so your saying the apparent fact that the universe is accelerating out could easily be bogus?

 

sounds good lol

 

What would these "mirrors" be analogous to in the real universe though?

That's an interesting thought experiment. However, shouldn't we see a large number of objects that look basically identical in your proposed universe?