RE: I bet you don't know this one
June 29, 2014 at 2:57 am
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2014 at 2:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
NP, I'll start from the bottom and work my way up.
You are already standing at a place that is "traveling" via expansion - faster than the speed of light. You don't notice this locally, because of your frame of reference (pretty much being nil as far as frames of reference go) - your position amongst the stars is probably imperceptible to you, as it is to most other human beings - as is the experience of rotating, wobbling, and revolving around the sun simultaneously. But more than that, all of this "stuff" around is is holding on to itself, gravity at play. Our grouping, as viewed from another grouping - would appear to be moving away from us as fast that grouping appears to be moving away from us, from here.
So the question I'm going to ask you is this. Have you ever watched a pile of debris move in a body of water? How might the behavior of that pile of debris provide a rough analogy for the observed behavior of stars and groupings within the observable universe?
You are already standing at a place that is "traveling" via expansion - faster than the speed of light. You don't notice this locally, because of your frame of reference (pretty much being nil as far as frames of reference go) - your position amongst the stars is probably imperceptible to you, as it is to most other human beings - as is the experience of rotating, wobbling, and revolving around the sun simultaneously. But more than that, all of this "stuff" around is is holding on to itself, gravity at play. Our grouping, as viewed from another grouping - would appear to be moving away from us as fast that grouping appears to be moving away from us, from here.
So the question I'm going to ask you is this. Have you ever watched a pile of debris move in a body of water? How might the behavior of that pile of debris provide a rough analogy for the observed behavior of stars and groupings within the observable universe?
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