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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
[mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf
Of Rick Tarara
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Hubble Law
What I would like further clarification on, is the limits of
this expansion.
I don't think we consider atoms to be expanding or even
molecules although both are mostly 'space'. If that's right
(and I could be wrong there) then objects wouldn't expand
(well I have with time but that's another story)--people,
houses, planets, and stars wouldn't expand (or do they?) This
would imply (to me) that nuclear and electrical forces can
negate the local expansion--but at what scale and for what
strength forces/fields?
Probably need the General Relativity experts and/or
cosmologists to answer.
A quick trip to Google didn't prove very useful.
Rick