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- From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
- Subject: Re: "Modeling" the Expanding Universe?
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:51:38 GMT
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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?
-