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What Is The Universe Expanding Into?
Forbes/Science ^
| 19 Feb, 2016
| Ethan Siegel
Posted on 02/20/2016 8:00:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
In the 1910s, Vesto Slipher noticed that the spiral nebulae in the sky were redshifted, consistent with the interpretation that they were moving away from us. In the 1920s, Hubble discovered that these nebulae were in fact galaxies, and determined their distance from us. If you combined these two facts - that there were distant galaxies that rapidly moved away from us - you noticed an interesting trend: the farther away a galaxy was from us, the faster it appeared to be moving away!.....
"But if it's expanding," almost everyone asks upon first learning about this, "then what is it expanding into?"
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: universe
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To: MtnClimber
Time to que up “The Galaxy Song”.
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:00:48 AM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
The book of Joel, repeated in Acts, and Revelation explains pretty clearly what it is expanding into...biblically I don’t see expanding into order, rather expanding into disorder or chaos. Then again being a biblically-believing, nail-dragging wacko, what do I know.
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:05:55 AM PST
by
CincyRichieRich
(Vote for Cruz or Trump; if one doesn't win, vote the other or lose your Republic.)
To: MtnClimber
“What Is The Universe Expanding Into?”
Bigger jeans?
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:05:57 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: MtnClimber
Read up on the big rip and never sleep soundly again....
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:05:59 AM PST
by
GraceG
(The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
To: MtnClimber
Nothingness, which, because it has a name, it must be something after all.
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:06:28 AM PST
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: CincyRichieRich
I have always thought of it expanding into God’s thought bubble.
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:08:10 AM PST
by
taxcontrol
( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
To: GraceG
Read up on the big rip and never sleep soundly again....Or even better, there's the notion that we are living inside a false vacuum.
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:14:17 AM PST
by
bigbob
("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
To: MtnClimber
Every thing in the observable universe is moving towards one spot called the Great Attractor. What that is no one knows. How fast one clump of galaxies is moving relatively towards it verses another depends on the relative positions of both. But everything will reach the same spot eventually regardless of current observable position.
Expansion has to do with the space between points expanding ...
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:15:01 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: MtnClimber
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Nice something that’s not political too!
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:21:56 AM PST
by
EternalHope
(Something wicked this way comes. Be ready.)
To: MtnClimber
OMG! We need to stop universal expansion!
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:24:17 AM PST
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: MtnClimber
What Is The Universe Expanding Into?Goldman Sachs?
To: MtnClimber
Hey that is one of the better explanations of the red shift I’ve ever seen.
Thank you!
To: MtnClimber
"But if it's expanding," almost everyone asks upon first learning about this, "then what is it expanding into?" the domain provided for it by God at the creation
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:34:23 AM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: CincyRichieRich
The Creator has fashioned a quite spectacular, infinite and perfectly ordered universe.
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:37:56 AM PST
by
JPG
(What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
To: PIF
The space between objects increases as the size of the objects diminishes. The universe appears to be expanding because each component is decreasing in size.
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:38:20 AM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:42:27 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
To: outofsalt
OMG! We need to stop universal expansion!
I really think continental drift is a more pressing issue at this time. Think globally, act locally.
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:46:17 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
To: Louis Foxwell
You solved it!
We’re shrinking.
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posted on
02/20/2016 8:52:48 AM PST
by
MUDDOG
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