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Old 24-January-2004, 01:49 AM
Ian Goddard Ian Goddard is offline
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Default Re: Universe Expansion

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Originally Posted by earthman2110
If everything is expanding away from a fixed point [...]
But that "if" is not the case in the prevailing Big Bang model known as the Inflation Theory. According to Inflation there is no center of expansion. Imagine a checker board, or metric, spread across all space with every box therein expanding, or inflating -- there is no center of the expansion since the expansion is happening everywhere. Everything is expanding away from every point, not from one central point.
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