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Article #3633Re: "Modeling" the Expanding Universe?
From: Richard A. Schumacher
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:51
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:51
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Just so I'm clear on this: If one adds two test particles to the universe, the general expansion does NOT by itself cause the test particles to move apart. Subsequent movement of the test particles depends on their mutual gravity and the gravitational or electromagnetic forces imposed on them by other matter/energy in the usual, non-cosmological ways. Distant objects will in general move away from the test particles, because the distant objects inherited their velocity from the big bang and continue to move with that velocity (slowing due to mutual gravity, to which the test particles add trivially). One can say that space itself is expanding, but this expansion does not drag particles along with it; it might be better to say that the expanding distribution of original matter/energy creates new space as it expands. A big, misleading flaw in the "expanding balloon" or "rising loaf" pictures is that added test "particles" (dots painted on the balloon, raisins stuck into the loaf) WILL move away from each other. Right?
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