aesmael: (probably quantum)
aesmael ([personal profile] aesmael) wrote2010-01-18 04:49 pm

Quick bit

"What we see today, when we look out at the Universe, is that the farther away things are from us, the faster they move away from us. "

Let's rephrase that. Let's say "the farther away things are from us, the faster we observe our separation increasing". The standard phrasing encourages misunderstandings about the nature of the universe's expansion.

[identity profile] infinitely-late.livejournal.com 2010-01-20 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
And in the end, we all feel very small.
Is that actually true? I would have thought that everything was moving apart at the same rate, and that therefore the distance something was from us wouldn't matter.