Submitted by Tank_AT t3_11r2ae9 in askscience
araujoms t1_jcb5ryj wrote
Reply to comment by Aseyhe in Does space expansion occur uniformly in all directions and dimensions? by Tank_AT
Because you are so emphatic in your answer that expansion is not a force that one gets the impression that no such force exists. For example, you quote > You shouldn’t think of galaxies as being pulled apart by some kind of expanding space
and > there is no local effect on particle dynamics from the global expansion of the universe: the tendency to separate is a kinematic initial condition, and once this is removed, all memory of the expansion is lost.
While both sentences are technically correct, a lay person will incorrectly conclude that no local repulsive force exists. I don't think this is good science communication.
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