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Originally Posted by RascalPuff  Dear Greg:
the system is not merely in a constant state of expansion, it is in a constant state of accelerating expansion. Consequently all of the experiential effects of gravity (the 4-D space-time continuum) as we see and feel (and hear) them (as in the settling down of a spinning coin or round platter on a hard surface) makes the issued expansion within the (spatially finite, chronologically infinite) system, altogether detectable... |
If the effects of acceleration (and I presume you accept Einsteins equivalence principle of gravity = acceleration) can be found in the behaviour of matter, such as the settling down of a platter, the fact that things don't fall up but are g-forced down. Then it follows that matter resists this expansion .. else why the noticeable effects ?
Resistance to expansion is the noticeable effect ?
In which case why is my earlier statement that gravity (or some force ?) is driving the expansion of space, but matter is clumping and clustering within space, being subject to the electro-nuclear forces which overcome gravity, why is this not a valid view also.
Putting aside your own view for the moment, can you negate my view ?
cool bananas ... greg