Expanding Space: the Root of all Evil?

Details Expanding Space: the Root of all Evil? Expanding Space: the Root of all Evil?

2007-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/0707.0380v1

Publ.Astron.Soc.Austral.24:95-102,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA

Scientific paper

10.1071/AS07019

While it remains the staple of virtually all cosmological teaching, the concept of expanding space in explaining the increasing separation of galaxies has recently come under fire as a dangerous idea whose application leads to the development of confusion and the establishment of misconceptions. In this paper, we develop a notion of expanding space that is completely valid as a framework for the description of the evolution of the universe and whose application allows an intuitive understanding of the influence of universal expansion. We also demonstrate how arguments against the concept in general have failed thus far, as they imbue expanding space with physical properties not consistent with the expectations of general relativity.

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