From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Dave wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:03:17 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote in
> message :
>
> | "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote in
> | message news:4420f681{at}w3....
> |
> | > Then what expanded? Nothing expanding into a nothing?
> |
> | Well if you think empty space is matter then I guess something expanded,
> | however I would call empty space nothing so yeah nothing expanded really
> | really fast.
> |
> | Actually something did expand, the area covered by the laws of physics is
> | what expanded into an area where other laws apply.
>
> So, is the Universe as we know it any larger than the distance between
> the two most widely-spaced objects?  If someone were located at the
> galaxy that is farthest away from the locus of the big bang event, and
> started flying away from that locus, would the universe expand?

Depends which way you were looking. In theory if one were at the wave front
then it sure would be dark looking away from the big bang.

Adam

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