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Why are distant galaxies not actually tiny bits of matter?
Distant galaxies are said to be moving away from the Milky Way (and us) at speeds approaching the speed of light. Since Special Relativity tells us that any object moving away from us at a velocity of ...
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Causal reconnection
Can causally disconnected regions join up again? For example the universe is expanding faster than light creating cosmological horizon, but what if something causes the expansion to slow down and ...
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Space-time & solar mass
Does the space-time curvature described by Einstein have any affect on the accuracy of our determination in the age of a star or globular cluster? How does this affect our interpretion of how old we ...
