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Chaim · **What means "outward(ly)" ? -** 07-06-2005, 11:03 AM

You state: "Our current universe is moving outwardly", and seem to take this as given, without question or further explanation.

To be a little more precise, the "large(r)-scale", say, extra-galactic remainder of our observable universe (ou) appears, at least from our current vantage point, to be moving away/"outward" from our instruments; thus intergalactic space appears to be relatively and isotropically, "expanding".
But, "expanding" with respect to what?
What is the observable universe supposed to be moving away or "outward" from? From itself?
And, if so, what background ({4+}-dimensional?) "meta-space" is it expanding "into"? And why only on a large(r)-scale?
I'm not sure if the ideas/notions of "outward" and expansion have been well-formed yet.

If we don't state very clearly what our observations do and do not tell us, the our theorizing is likely to go awry.

Perhaps we could have a subsection of this site allocated for TOOU's
(theories of the observable universe) or TOU's for short?

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Chaim In Training Status: Offline Posts: 3 Thanks Given: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Join Date: May 2005 Rep Power: 0	What means "outward(ly)" ? - 07-06-2005, 11:03 AM You state: "Our current universe is moving outwardly", and seem to take this as given, without question or further explanation. To be a little more precise, the "large(r)-scale", say, extra-galactic remainder of our observable universe (ou) appears, at least from our current vantage point, to be moving away/"outward" from our instruments; thus intergalactic space appears to be relatively and isotropically, "expanding". But, "expanding" with respect to what? What is the observable universe supposed to be moving away or "outward" from? From itself? And, if so, what background ({4+}-dimensional?) "meta-space" is it expanding "into"? And why only on a large(r)-scale? I'm not sure if the ideas/notions of "outward" and expansion have been well-formed yet. If we don't state very clearly what our observations do and do not tell us, the our theorizing is likely to go awry. Perhaps we could have a subsection of this site allocated for TOOU's (theories of the observable universe) or TOU's for short?