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B Why do we use expanding metric?
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Being material observers, we do not expand with the universe. Our ruler for measuring its increasing size does not expand either - its scale does not change. If I identify the ruler with a metric, then from my perspective it should be invariant both spatially and temporally. If it expanded with...- stoper
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