Jack Temmink

Well, if everything is shrinking, you also need to proportionately weaken some forces and do things like slow the speed of light in proportion to the rate at which things are shrinking. You might be able to hash it out so that it all works, but it would certainly be a lot more complicated than simply assuming that space is expanding.

hmmm,,, assuming is not to scientific is it?

I'm trying to see for myself how it's possible to see the difference between the two, expanding or shrinking, It's just a view of perspective without changing the rules of physics.

If space was an entity he wouldn't say he was getting bigger, he would see mass is getting smaller and visa versa, there is no other reference

Both are maybe even irrelavant because there's no way to tell the difference, like trying to find out who is moving, the airplane or the earth under it.

 

The expansion of space does not require it to be expanding "into" anything. The universe is all there is, so there is nothing for it to expand into.

 

 

You can choose coordinates in which that is true.

 

Thank you for your reply. See, here are the intelligent people

This is also what i ment. It doesn't have to or can't expand into anything so thats why you can also not say its expanding. It makes no difference if you say that the universe expanding or mass is shrinking, it has the same outcome.

Even from the start of the big bang because there's nothing else than the universe and there's no 'outside' measure it, only an inside..

Hi all,

Last days i'm walking with a question in my mind and im not smart enough to answer it.

So that's why I put it here where the smart people come.

The universe is expanding, and if it has a boundary we cannot say into what.

But if there's nothing behind the edge than we cannot say that we are expanding because relative to what is space expanding.

From our view space is getting bigger. But from the view of space mass is shrinking.

So like everything also an expanding universe is relative.

The only thing you can say is that the ratio space - mass is changing.

Bigbang 0% space - 100% mass

Now 99,99% space - 0.0000000000000000000042% mass

The question is: Does this has some logic in it?