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Originally Posted by Emspak
Hey Sam5--
You asked earlier in the thread for "commonsense explanations." THen you go on to say that there are no scientific papers discussing the expansion (observed) of the universe. Let's get into a couple of things here.
First, space "expands" but it isn't like blowing up a balloon where you add something. It isn't just a mystery of nature either. The best analogy I can come up with is a rubber band -- you don't add anything to the band when you stretch it, but it is longer. Space, not being made of anything material, behaves in a similar fashion. But this is an analogy, NOT the thing itself.
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Well, when you stretch the rubber band, you are expanding or “thinning out” its “fields”, whatever fields there are that hold the molecules of the rubber band together. “Space” is just the place where you stretch the rubber band.
I suspect this happens in deep space when the galaxies spread apart, i.e. the “thinning out” of the galaxies’ gravitational fields as they spread apart. “Space” is just the place where this “thinning out” occurs. So it is not “space” that “expands”, the fields become “thinner” or “weaker” in the area of space in-between the galaxies as they separate. So, the real expression should not be an “expansion of space”, but a “weakening of the gravitational fields in-between the galaxies” or an “expansion of the gravitational fields” or a “thinning out of the gravitational fields”.
This would match observation, it would make sense, and it would NOT be “counter-intuitive”.