Re: expansion



john280109 <vegan16@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]
Now, if you paint spots
on your sphere's surface and then expand the
sphere, all the spots *do not* distance themselves equally;

Right. If you work this out, you will find that the speed that
any two points move apart is proportional to the distance
between them. Just like the Hubble expansion.

Steve Carlip
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