From: Dave 

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?

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