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|    jmreno to The guy on the Internet    |
|    Re: Expanding universe    |
|    23 Jul 18 22:59:48    |
      From: none@znet.com              On 7/23/2018 1:24 AM, The guy on the Internet wrote:       > Can the fact that galaxies are receding from each other faster       > than light violate causality?       >              The universe is expanding because space itself is expanding.              And since space and time are intrinsically linked, maybe it is spacetime       that is expanding.              That would mean that time is expanding along with space.              Presumably, that means that time is slowing down.              How would you test that?              And, if time is slowing down it would make it look like the expansion of       the universe is speeding up.              [[Mod. note -- The concepts in question aren't as simple as that.       See the Edward R Harrison references I posted elsewhere in this thread,       or Davis & Lineweaver's great explanation at        http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004PASA...21...97D       a.k.a        http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310808       -- jt]]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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