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Expanding Universe 

Expanding Universe . Robert Nemiroff Michigan Tech U. Physics X: About This Course. Officially "Extraordinary Concepts in Physics" Being taught for credit at Michigan Tech Light on math, heavy on concepts Anyone anywhere is welcome No textbook required

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Expanding Universe 

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  1. Expanding Universe  Robert Nemiroff Michigan Tech U.

  2. Physics X: About This Course • Officially "Extraordinary Concepts in Physics" • Being taught for credit at Michigan Tech • Light on math, heavy on concepts • Anyone anywhere is welcome • No textbook required • Wikipedia, web links, and lectures only • Find all the lectures with Google at: • "Starship Asterisk" then "Physics X"  • http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewforum.php?f=39

  3. Considering Our Universe as a Whole The Cosmological Principle Universe Homogeneous & Isotropic Homogeneous Smooth when averaged out Example: jello, even fruity jello Isotropic Same in every direction Example: room with the lights out

  4. The Expanding Universe: Hubble’s Law Our Universe is expanding! Discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1930s More distant galaxies are moving away faster Hubble’s Law: v = Ho d v is galaxy velocity, d is galaxy distance and Ho is Hubble’s constant

  5. Expanding Universe             What is our universe expanding into? 1.  Empty space. 2.  An extra spatial dimension. 3.  An extra time dimension. 4.  General Relativity only says that objects can move apart.

  6. Expanding Universe 4.  General Relativity only says that objects can move apart. There are theories that use other spatial dimensions, but Einstein's General Relativity (GR), by itself, isn't one of them.  GR only says that the entire universe could be expanding.  GR does not include a larger "empty space" that it could be expanding into.  In GR, matter and energy is everywhere.  Observations indicate that matter is diluting everywhere.  

  7. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/hubble.html

  8. Center of the Universe Toward which direction is the center of the universe? 1.  The Sun. 2.  The center of our Milky Way Galaxy. 3.  The dipole hotspot on the microwave background. 4.  No direction.

  9. The Expanding Universe: Where is the center? In General Relativistic Cosmology: There is no center. There is no “Big Bang National Park”. The Universe is not an exploding golf ball. Every point can be considered the center. The expansion looks the same from every point.

  10. http://www.hk-phy.org/articles/univexpand/univexpand.jpg

  11. (Courtesy of SLAC and Nicolle Rager) http://www.interactions.org/imagebank/search_detail.php?image_no=SL0062

  12. The Expanding Universe: What is expanding? Newtonian cosmology does have a center Would result in strange unseen forces You and I do not expand Anything held together does not expand The average space between galaxies expands – almost drifts -- apart

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