(June 17, 2017 at 6:48 pm)Alex K Wrote:(June 17, 2017 at 6:32 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Then I must first understand1. Well... the usual meaning i'd say
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.)
Gulp. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you go "YIKES." If the expansion is not subject to inertia, then it's also not subject to gravity, so there can be no end to the expansion—no eventual collapse. back to big bang size. Unless the ants discoonect from the rubber band and their gravity makes them snap back.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.