Submitted by Tank_AT t3_11r2ae9 in askscience
Aseyhe t1_jc87l2x wrote
Reply to comment by cygx in Does space expansion occur uniformly in all directions and dimensions? by Tank_AT
Odd, I'm not sure why they cite that there. But the error made in the Cooperstock et al. article is pretty elementary, in any event. By starting with the FLRW metric for an Einstein-de Sitter universe, they assume from the outset that matter is homogeneously distributed everywhere at the critical density. The force that they claim arises from the expansion of the universe is really just the gravitational influence of this matter.
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