(June 17, 2017 at 6:32 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:1. Well... the usual meaning i'd say(June 17, 2017 at 6:00 pm)Alex K Wrote: No. There is no inertia to overcome - because universal expansion doesn't actively move objects apart in physical space, it is just space itself becoming more. This is where the rubber band picture fails.
Then I must first understand
1. what you mean by space.
2. Tf the objects are not moving, how have scientists come tosee an expasion? I thought the red shift had to do with an object moving away.
2. No, the redshift comes from space stretching while the light is travelling, and stretching the travelling light waves with it. The objets aren't moving in space, space is stretching (see my rubber band analogy: two ants can stand still with respect to the rubber band, and yet their distance changes.)
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
