Re:James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expand...
by wutwutwat on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:24PM
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> It doesn’t expand into anything. It has no edge. It expands within itself, like it’s distorting itself
That's not an explanation, that's incoherent ramblings that make zero logical sense
Re:James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expand...
by layer8 on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:28PM
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The math from general relativity is crystal clear. It’s just difficult to translate into natural language, because it doesn’t match our intuitions, which are primed by local experiences of non-curved space. You have to question your intuitions, and if you’re serious about it, look into the actual math. It all follows from a few basic assumptions, and is consistent with actual observations to an unmatched degree.
Re:James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expand...
by 16bytes on Friday March 29, 2024 @05:41PM
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To paraphrase Feynman, I can't explain to you how the universe expands in terms that you are familiar with because I don't understand it in terms that you are familiar with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
It takes effort to understand those fundamental terms, so if you want to understand this, you'll have to meet people halfway instead of rejecting how somebody is trying to explain something to you.
Still alternatively, imagine an infinitely extended graph paper whose grid size slowly and continuously increases, carrying with it the dots already drawn on it. Since the grid has infinite size from the start, it doesn’t expand into anything. It just expands.