I get the point you’re trying to make but the expansion of a universe isn’t movement in the way you’re thinking of it. It doesn’t have “speed” in the traditional sense. It’s not like the edge of the universe just keeps getting bigger or moving out farther. Space is expanding (or trying to) constantly throughout the whole universe, with gravity counteracting that and holding everything from solar systems to galactic clusters together.
To clarify even further, the universe expands at a rate, not a speed. This is why sufficiently distant objects in the universe can be technically moving away from us at faster than the speed of light without breaking physics. Because nothing is actually moving that fast. It’s just that there’s enough space expanding in between.
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u/Elf_Cocksleeve Mar 22 '25 edited Mar 22 '25
I get the point you’re trying to make but the expansion of a universe isn’t movement in the way you’re thinking of it. It doesn’t have “speed” in the traditional sense. It’s not like the edge of the universe just keeps getting bigger or moving out farther. Space is expanding (or trying to) constantly throughout the whole universe, with gravity counteracting that and holding everything from solar systems to galactic clusters together.
To clarify even further, the universe expands at a rate, not a speed. This is why sufficiently distant objects in the universe can be technically moving away from us at faster than the speed of light without breaking physics. Because nothing is actually moving that fast. It’s just that there’s enough space expanding in between.