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Amount of matter in two infinite universes [closed]
I don't know exactly where to find any other information on this question so I thought I would ask here. If there were two infinitely large universes one where 20% of the space in the universe was ...
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Are there other theories than gravitational attraction taken into account as a reason for the extreme accumulation of matter in the universe?
This question is about how small the interstellar density is (less than 1 atom per cubic centimeter).
But although the interstellar density is very low, matter tends to extremely aggregate in certain ...
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Expansion of space or contracting of matter? [duplicate]
Can the expansion of the Universe effect be explained by contraction of the overall matter instead? That is, all material objects are in fact contracting, due to what the universal space seems (and ...
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Mass and Gravitational Force [duplicate]
Why do mass has a tendency to attract other masses and form bigger cluster of mass?
What cause gravitational force to exist?
Is it so that at one point of time all matter in universe will form ...
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Pressure of (cold matter)
The first pages of Weinberg's Cosmology state that matter, cold matter like dust has zero pressure. I find it very disturbing. Does 'cold matter' also include fluids since hot matter is radiation, ...
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What if there was no baryon-antibaryon asymmetry in our universe?
We know that the universe goes through different evolutionary phases: radiation, matter and later dark energy epoch.
What would happen if there was no baryon-antibaryon asymmetry? How would the ...
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Is every object in the universe really expanding? Even small scale objects like humans? [duplicate]
So I was asked a question by someone that "if everything in the universe is expanding, then the lens we use to look at stellar objects is expanding as well, meaning we shouldn't be able to tell the ...
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Cosmological Inflation: If Photon expands, why not other matter?
I keep repeatedly reading in many Stack Exchange and Quora questions that space of universe expands but particles (matter) don't, see e.g. this Phys.SE post. The reason given is that particles are ...
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As space expands does the density of matter remain same or increase? [duplicate]
I learned that space is always expanding. Even between sun and earth, it's just gravity is stronger.
Imagine space as graph paper and there is a square object that fills it.
Space expands, 1x1 cell ...
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Intuition for why matter dominated expansion is faster than radiation domination?
In a matter dominated universe $a_{\rm mat.}(t)\sim t^{2/3}$, while in a radiation dominated universe, $a(t)_{\rm rad.}\sim t^{1/2}$. Therefore, a matter dominated universe is expanding more quickly, ...
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If energy can't order itself, how did energy get ordered or made? [duplicate]
In the universe we see that hydrogen (bound up energy) is found in a highly concentrated ordered state in some places and it's highly dispersed in most other places. There is a natural progression ...
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Could matter in the universe come from some process other than the decay of inflaton field?
Could matter in the universe come from some process other than the decay of inflaton field?
Do we have any theoretical reasons that support the idea that matter was created from the decay of ...
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Space expansion and conservation of energy [duplicate]
The phrase of 'expansion of universe' , as we are led to believe, is mostly referring to an expansion in space. But is space expanding in the sense that the space between two particles is increasing ...
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How does mass affect the expansion of space?
I'm a layman and I'm curious to understand how mass affects the expansion of space and whether the expansion of space is uniform everywhere in the universe.
From looking at redshifts it seems we have ...
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Is there scientific evidence that point towards the cause of differently distributed matter through out the Universe? [closed]
If we know from discoveries from cosmology prove that ordinary matter and dark matter are still not enough to explain the structure of the universe and its distribution of matter. There should be a ...
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