Re: Does space expand as a sphere?

From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 06:29:04 GMT

starman wrote:
> BluMax wrote:
>
>>I am still wondering if the space that the objects in the universe
>>are moving into is infinite. I mean, why not?
>
>
> As others have said, the "objects" are not moving into a pre-existing
> unoccupied space. Space itself is being created as the universe expands.
> That's what is so hard for the human mind to grasp about this subject.
> Our brains didn't evolve to deal with these kinds of abstractions, at
> least not in a visual sense.

   Actually space is stretching and lengthening the wavelength of the
   CMB in the process.

         Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
           http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
           http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html

         WMAP: Foundations of the Big Bang theory
           http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html

         WMAP: Tests of Big Bang Cosmology
           http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest.html

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