Timeline for Can the Hubble constant be measured directly?
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| Dec 20, 2022 at 1:25 | vote | accept | Spencer Joplin | ||
| Dec 13, 2022 at 4:17 | comment | added | Acccumulation | "In fact there is no expansion even on the scale of the local group of galaxies." I think you should reword that, such as "The expansion on the scale of a local group of galaxies is so small that it is negligible compared to gravity". | |
| Dec 12, 2022 at 18:11 | comment | added | James K | @DavidS I think that could be asked as a new question. | |
| Dec 12, 2022 at 17:57 | comment | added | David S | Wait, I think this breaks my understanding of the Crisis in Cosmology then. If space doesn't expand universally, but only in local regions of insufficient gravity, then when the universe smaller and denser, there would be fewer regions of expansion, which would be less expansion. A smaller value using the CMB makes sense then. By the time quasars came about the average density would've been much lower, giving a higher Hubble constant value. If we find a way to measure the Hubble Constant in voids closer than the quasars, I expect an even higher value. Just a layman's perspective. | |
| Dec 12, 2022 at 16:46 | comment | added | Kyle A | If my understanding is correct, even just the gravitational influence of the planet (or even just from the Sun) would be strong enough to prevent any local expansion within the neighborhood. It's possible that the mass of the LIGO equipment itself might be enough to prevent local expansion, so it might not be directly measurable even in the emptiest regions of the universe. | |
| Dec 12, 2022 at 11:17 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2022 at 10:34 | comment | added | ProfRob | Quite correct. Indeed there are other things going on (e.g. tidal effects from the moon, low frequency seismic vibrations) that would swamp such a small change in any case. | |
| S Dec 12, 2022 at 8:01 | history | suggested | nuwe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2022 at 1:22 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |