If the universe is expanding, are we expanding too?
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Re: If the universe is expanding, are we expanding too?
#2Veritasium recently did a video on this
https://www.veritasium.com/videos/2020/10/23/do-you-expand-w...
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#3The wild thing to me, assuming I understand it correctly, is that the expansion speed can exceed the speed of light.
Re: If the universe is expanding, are we expanding too?
#4Yes if we consider the universal as information and our relationships to it as receivers. We've been expanding our time experience for millennia and will continue to so as long we continue to imagine and create.
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#5Did galaxies evolve much quicker billions of years ago since expansion hadn't yet pulled them as far apart? In other words, the further back in time you go did matter tend to interact much more frequently so in some sense the interaction-time of the universe is much longer than the actual number of years?
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#6The wild thing to me, assuming I understand it correctly, is that the expansion speed can exceed the speed of light.
Yep. That’s why we talk about the observable universe. Objects outside the radius of the observable universe are moving away from us so quickly that any light or gravitational effect from those objects have no chance of reaching us any longer.
Re: If the universe is expanding, are we expanding too?
#7The wild thing to me, assuming I understand it correctly, is that the expansion speed can exceed the speed of light.
You correct, but in the details. Travelling through space is limited to the speed of causality (the speed any massless particle travels) but space between itself is not limited to any particular speed.
Think of it this way: A balloon is space and the speed of sound is the limit at which waves can travel across it. This normal for sound waves. If every bit of the balloon expanded at 1 inch per second, a small balloon would be getting bigger, but wouldn't exceed the speed of sound. A sound wave will outrace the expansion.
Once the balloon as expanded to about 2500 feet in diameter, the expansion along the balloon will be greater than the speed of sound. A sound wave will never make to the other side. That said, no one place is expanding more than 1 inch per second. Nothing in part violates the speed of sound.
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#8All organisms expand or grow. The universe is an organism. The earth is an organism. And it is growing. Etc.
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#9I just ate enough thai food for 3 people so I'm pretty sure I am at least
Re: If the universe is expanding, are we expanding too?
#10I just ate enough thai food for 3 people so I'm pretty sure I am at least
If it makes you feel any better according to relativity you're now slight more attractive.