GRT: Wrong Picture of Basic Cosmology?

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Hello,

I hope you can help me. I thought I have an idea about GRT but I found this about about the basic cosmology. It is a link to a video from Stanford Univerisity. In short words: Susskind seems to confuse coordinates with distance. I can't understand that he seems to talk about defined coordinates and then about relativity. He seems to have a view that an expanding universe means that the meter-scale is involvolved.
If you have a sphere, for example, you will have a sphere. You will have physics which is locally not depending from the "geometry" given. A meter-scale is a meter-scale, there is no change in time.

I am confused.


 
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I can give myself a first answer. I have a bacic misunderstanding of GRT. Since the velocity of light is a constant the expansion of the universe is not bending the let's say meter-scale but a real expansion. An object real get's farer away from every point in the universe in the long scale terms. I find this really strange since it means that the energy-momentum tensor really creates new space, not just deforms it, right?
 

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