• ZephyrXero@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Seeing the universe expanding at different rates could just mean we’re not as close to the center as we thought, and the parts further away from the center are moving faster. That’s my layman’s hypothesis though

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      8 months ago

      There is no center of the universe fwiw, there is no middle everything is expanding out from. Just a substrate that exists everywhere that inflates

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        8 months ago

        It’s fun to think it might just start going backwards or something because we have literally no idea what is actually happening, like it’s very possible we’ll never actually be able to see or measure anything outside the universe but there could be all sorts of things going on.