- #176
Trenton
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The idea of expanding space seems to me to be precicely as strange as in-falling space in the vacinity of black holes. One is simply the reverse of the other!
Since the big bang appears to be a singularity that for some reason became disrupted and exploded outwards, it would follow that space would expand in a collapsing or diminishing gravitational field. The further out the space is, the faster it expands - Just as with a black hole the further in the faster it shrinks.
This seems to me to be a better explanation than dark energy for the accelerating expansion - not least because we don't have to look for anything new!
And yes it can go faster than light because the speed of space itself is not limited in GR.
Since the big bang appears to be a singularity that for some reason became disrupted and exploded outwards, it would follow that space would expand in a collapsing or diminishing gravitational field. The further out the space is, the faster it expands - Just as with a black hole the further in the faster it shrinks.
This seems to me to be a better explanation than dark energy for the accelerating expansion - not least because we don't have to look for anything new!
And yes it can go faster than light because the speed of space itself is not limited in GR.