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Old 24-January-2004, 04:16 AM
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Default Re: Universe Expansion

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Originally Posted by Ian Goddard
No it isn't. If a set of points placed at the intersections on a square grid around a central point expand uniquely from that central point n distance per unit of time, the grid structure initially defined by those points will not be maintained (get some graph paper and see). On the other hand, what I described is the case where the points expand apart and the grid structure is maintained, and in that case there is no center of expansion; the expansion behavior favors no point.

What you are talking about is a big flat expanding Euclidean plane. What you’ve described still has a center.

If you turn it into 3-D, you’ve got a big expanding cube, with sharp edges on the outside and eight corner points. Even an expanding cube has a center.

If you use polar graph paper, the graph paper still has a center.
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