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Once we discovered that the Universe was expanding, the next scientific step was to determine what the rate of expansion was Universe is expanding into.

How can something infinite be expanding? What was there before it expanded into it?

5 posted on 01/13/2017 6:24:14 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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How can something infinite be expanding? What was there before it expanded into it?

I think that is one of the big questions.

12 posted on 01/13/2017 6:35:00 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Who said the universe is infinite? How do they know?


23 posted on 01/13/2017 7:18:37 PM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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The universe is expands the space between objects like two points on the surface of a ballon as it is filled with gas; however there is no way to know if the universe its self is expanding as we cannot see the (present) boundaries (if any) in real time. We cannot be sure that the universe is not a set size with objects rushing apart to fill the unobserved (and perhaps unobservable) boundaries ...

Objects get further apart, but conversely all objects are going to the same place (at varying speeds) - called the Great Attractor.

Recommend some form of aspirin at this point for incipient headaches brought on by attempting to make sense of something that by definition does not make sense except in mathematics ...


49 posted on 01/14/2017 4:03:41 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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