The Expanding Universe, as it relates to Me

Factual Questions
1

Is the universe expanding in such a way that I am much larger relative to the size I used to be?

2

No.

3

Oh, and you may be interested to know, the Universe is not expanding all that fast, compared to its size. Even if you were expanding along with the Universe, then in 20 years, you’d only be 0.0000005% bigger.

For this post, it is assumed that H[sub]0[/sub] = 80 km·s[sup]-1[/sup]/Mpc = 8.18×10[sup]-11[/sup] yr[sup]-1[/sup].

4

See about halfway down in this webpage for Woody Allen’s comments about how the expansion of the universe affects us personally:

http://www.filmsite.org/anni.html

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See about halfway down in this webpage for Woody Allen’s comments about how the expansion of the universe affects us personally:

http://www.filmsite.org/anni.html

6

For a discussion on why small scale structure is not altered by the expansion of the universe, see the end of the last page of this thread.

7

What, no mention of the classic Expanding Universe thread? Threadspotting just doesn’t get any respect these days.