(May 31, 2014 at 7:41 am)LostLocke Wrote: It's not "empty space" that's expanding, it's just space.
And the space isn't coming from anywhere, it's more like it's stretching.
Kaku likes to use a balloon as an example. When you blow up a balloon even though it's getting bigger, there isn't more rubber being added to it, just the rubber that is already there is stretching.
This is why the galaxy clusters are getting further apart from each other. There's no new galaxies forming to fill the gaps.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
