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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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Accelerating expansion of universe - entire universe a non-inertial frame of reference?
If the expansion of the universe is accelerating, doesn't that mean that the entire universe is a non-inertial frame of reference? And if so, what implications does this have (if any)?
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Space expansion looking like time dilation
Space looks like time depending on the motion of the observer so I was going to ask if space expansion was the same as the unfolding of time, but this was asked on physics.stackexchange before and the ...
