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Does the amount of gravitational potential energy in the universe increase as it expands?

It seems to me that extra gravitational potential energy is created as the universe expands and the distance between massive objects such as galaxy clusters increases; this implies that energy is not ...
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Origins of the universe questions

If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? Similarly when the big bang happened where and how did it occur? - Where did the energy come from? Energy can not be created or destroyed does ...
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Redshifting of Light and the expansion of the universe

So I have learned in class that light can get red-shifted as it travels through space. As I understand it, space itself expands and stretches out the wavelength of the light. This results in the light ...