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Grade 8General Physics

What is the meaning of the “expansion of space”?

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12 Years agoGrade 8
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Profile image of Saurabh Koranglekar
6 Years ago
The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between any two given gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. ... To an observer it appears that space is expanding and all but the nearest galaxies are receding into the distance.