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Because the Universe is expanding, what is it taking up?
It is my understanding that the universe is expanding and that matter takes up space. While the universe only contains small percent of matter, wouldn't expansion indicate that the universe is ...
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How can something infinitely big have expanded from an infinitely small?
Please help me reconcile what I see as contradicting theories:
The universe began with the Big Bang and expanded from an infinitesimally small point.
The universe is infinite.
How can something ...
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How can the universe be expanding faster than speed of light? [duplicate]
So the story goes like this:
A long time ago, 13.799±0.021 billion years to be exact, something happened. It was a big bang, loud explosion and universe came to existence. It grew and grew, and now ...
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Big Bang / Big Crunch cycle?
I've been reading some of Stephen Hawking's work on the theory of the expansion (and ultimate contraction) of the universe and was curious if anyone has every hypothesized that the universe has ...
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