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Saturday, March 12, 2005

Scientific American has an interesting article about the subject. I admit I still don't completely understand it - and I thought I had a better grasp before reading the piece, so I guess it was needed.

The expansion of the universe may be the most important fact we have ever discovered about our origins. You would not be reading this article if the universe had not expanded. Human beings would not exist. Cold molecular things such as life-forms and terrestrial planets could not have come into existence unless the universe, starting from a hot big bang, had expanded and cooled. The formation of all the structures in the universe, from galaxies and stars to planets and Scientific American articles, has depended on the expansion...

Every time I read stuff like this I wish I could be like this silver guy and go out there and take a look. How about you?

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Ooo, definitely. But probably in some future life millennia from now.

I must admit I like the idea that were further apart not because we're moving apart, but because space is growing between us. And no, that is not the same thing. :)

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