Re: Expanding Space

From: AllYou! (idaman_at_conversent.net)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:14:43 -0500

"Dave P." <davep@home.com> wrote in message
news:ns11211tro4pcfhrmafstuc6sbug6vl2uh@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:25:09 -0500, "AllYou!" <idaman@conversent.net>
> wrote:
>
> >> Well that your god given right. When a gas expands, it's density drops.
> >> What do you find between the molecules ?
> >
> >nothing.
>
> Aha... now we arrive at the explanation of your curious argument...
> you appear to be caught in some semantic arguement about the meaining
> of the word "space".
>
> Unless your statement of "nothing" is, instead, finally an
> ackowledgement of the reasonable arguements that have been made.
>
> on another tack... while I agree with the arguments about gas
> disspation and the inverse square law... is it not technically true
> that all I have to do is merely say "One meter cubed" and I have
> defined a measurable property of space, without even having to resort
> to mathematics or experimentation?

Only conceptually.

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