More complete explanation of the illusion of expansion

Here's a complete description of the graphs:

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if X = 3, then it's charted like this:

|..X...|


Ok.


So step 1 X is at 1.

|X.....| (step 1)

On step 2 X is at 3. It's velocity is 2.

|..X...| (step 2)

On Step 3 it is at 4, so its velocity was 1.

|...X..| (step 3)

It's slowing down, when shown together, it looks like this:

|X.....| (step 1)
|..X...| (step 2)
|...X..| (step 3)

If you drew a line through the Xs it would be a curve that depicts
deceleration.

Now the same three steps, shown while zooming-in :

|X.....|
| . . X. . . |
| . . . X. . |

A line through these Xs would be a straight line, that depicts a
constant velocity.

If we interpret the zoom as the literal expansion of space, then:

v = d / t

d increases proportionately with the t, and the velocity stays the
same.

If you don't interpret the zoom as expansion, then d stays the same,
and a decelerating v and inversely increasing t match the same data.
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