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| A COSMIC REPORT
Timothy Ferris sums up the universe in "The Whole Shebang." |
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in this forum:Was Einstein wrong? What was the location of the Big Bang ? What was the universe like before the Big Bang? If the universe is expanding, is gravity weakening? What is the universe expanding into?
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Eugene Jursek of Stow, OH asks: Since the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? Does the universe carry its own expansion space or is space already present (ahead of the expansion) and the universe is expanding into it?
Timothy Ferris responds:
One can imagine the universe as sitting in a hyperdimensional embedding space of some sort, but in 3-dimensional terms it doesn't expand into anything but rather contains all 3-space, which itself stretches as time passes. Not to keep plugging the book, but the best way I can answer this question is to refer you to its discussion in "The Whole Shebang" -- especially in Chapter Three, "The Shape of Space."
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