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adrianN
on Jan 7, 2020
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Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery...
As I understand it, the forces that keep matter together are strong enough to counteract any expansion.
Koshkin
on Jan 7, 2020
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Unlikely, because expansion of space is equivalent to the slowing of light, as other commenters have mentioned.
cygx
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Such heuristic explanations are distractions: Locally, gravitational effects (including spatial expansion) manifest as pseudo-forces and hence can be counteracted.
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