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Is it possible that universe might not be speeding up expansion?
I'm not sure but I was thinking of galaxies shrinking with time while still moving apart from each other at almost a constant speed or less (i.e: uniform/slightly decelerating expansion). This may ...
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How do we measure the range of distant objects despite relativistic effects?
When we observe astronomical objects like distant galaxies there are several complicating factors for estimating the distance:
Relativistic speed result in length contraction
Relativistic speed ...
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Light coming from distant galaxies
Some of the distant galaxies appear to be receding from us faster than the speed of light due to stretch of the space between us and those galaxies.
By an analogy with the ant on a rope paradox, the ...
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Expansion of Universe [duplicate]
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Why space expansion affects matter?
If the Expansion is prevalent, i.e. it is observable and true then shouldn't that result in the expansion of the Milky Way galaxy, ...
