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Old 21-April-2008, 09:48 PM
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Yes it does in the same way that a mile used to be shorter.

The deal is to keep light constant ( c ) if space expands then time needs to expand also. If a mile is now mile prime then second needs to have become a second prime.

Remember there is no real space or real time it is all relative to an observer and whatever the situation is of the observer c is constant.


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Originally Posted by speedfreek View Post
But this doesn't mean that seconds* used to be smaller, does it?

If we think that expansion is only measurable at the larger scales and only measurably affects distances outside of gravity-bound systems and not within them, does that mean that time moves very differently in the voids between the superclusters to how it does within them?


*the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom