Space/time expansion and quantum world

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as predicted by red shift's measurement the galaxies seems to be going away from us

how is this expansion be seen in quantum scale?
 
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Your physics question is very vague. Are you asking whether, for example, hydrogen atoms get bigger due to cosmological expansion? If so, then the answer is no. There is not even any detectable effect at the scale of the solar system: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html#SS
 
It has no effect on anything on a quantum scale. Only things on a very large scale, in fact only galaxies are being affected by this expansion. The gravity holding galaxies/solar systems together is strong enough to keep them whole.
 
bcrowell said:
Nouveau_riche, please do not use text-speak on PF. Please use standard capitalization and punctuation.

Your physics question is very vague. Are you asking whether, for example, hydrogen atoms get bigger due to cosmological expansion? If so, then the answer is no. There is not even any detectable effect at the scale of the solar system: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html#SS

so what we have is intergalactic expansion?
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
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