The sky has always known

RSI argues that it does not need new data. It needs a frame that makes the existing data readable. Read in that frame, "the sky is not mysterious. It is a map."

Tolman brightness. In 1930 Richard Tolman showed that in an expanding universe, the surface brightness of galaxies must fall steeply with redshift. Deep surveys have not found the full expected dimming. RSI reads redshift as light losing energy over a long path through the medium, not as galaxies racing away.

The Lopez rings. Alexia Lopez has reported the Giant Arc, about 3.3 billion light-years long, and the Big Ring, about 1.3 billion light-years across. Both exceed the roughly one-billion-light-year limit on coherent structure in the standard model. RSI sees them as cross-sections of vast vortex tubes in a self-similar medium.

The bulk flows. The Milky Way and its neighbors are streaming toward the Great Attractor at about 600 kilometers per second, and the known mass in that direction does not fully account for it. RSI reads this as the Universal Inhale, the medium's return current, carrying galaxies like debris in a river.

The CMB. RSI reads its uniformity as the hum of a medium in equilibrium, its dipole as our motion through the inhale, and the Axis of Evil as the imprint of the torus's shape.

Each fact is anomalous in standard cosmology. Together, RSI argues, they draw the shape of the thing we live inside.