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To: PIF
Currently gravity overcomes expansion at local group galactic (and you and me) levels. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide in about five billion years. Your coffee cup isn’t getting any farther from you.

Eventually expansion will tear apart the nuclei of atoms. Eventually, each fundamental particle will be so far apart in expanding space that even if traveling towards one another at the speed of light they will never meet.

Each fundamental particle will, in a practical sense, be alone in the universe. Nothing in any direction forever.

10 posted on 03/10/2019 3:49:39 AM PDT by coaster123 (Bring back the curtsy. - If one is alive one is privileged.)
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To: coaster123

Currently gravity overcomes expansion at local group galactic (and you and me) levels.


That is the theory, but since the larger group is also subject to gravity, that group must (to be consistent) also overcome the expansion - a seeming logical fallacy.

What’s the difference between space expanding between stellar objects and me and the coffee cup, since you cite that: “Eventually expansion will tear apart the nuclei of atoms”?

I have no idea what you are made of, but I assume like the rest of us, you are made up of atoms which will eventually be torn apart by expansion. All of which I said in my original post - just not in those words.

And yes, during the course of a morning typing all this stuff, my coffee cup has a mysterious way of getting further away somehow, worse, every once in a while the liquid inside seems to vanish, forcing me to move further from my desk and into the kitchen for more of the liquid (dark energy at work, perhaps?).


13 posted on 03/10/2019 4:01:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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