Re: expansion of the universe

[J Montgomery <jmontgomery@WTHS.NET>]

If everything scaled the same we wouldn't be able to detect a change in
distance, would we?  Or am I misunderstanding the question?

Julie Montgomery

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Cleyet [mailto:anngeorg@PACBELL.NET]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:01 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: expansion of the universe


And how would know?  e.g. would everything scale the same?

bc


Jim Green wrote:

> > the density must decrease.) Individual ants don't get
> > larger in size, but the distance between them increases.
>
> I must confess that in my senility I worry that cosmology is just
mumbo
> jumbo, but understanding the above might help:
>
> Why don't the ants get bigger?  If the distance between ants
increases, why
> doesn't the distance between ant molecules increase.
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen