If expansion only occurs where matter exists (I seem to remember some hypothesis along those lines), then theoretically the universe could expand like a sea urchin, and what we see is the center and things that are moving in our general direction, but we wouldn't see the stars that are in a different "spike", so to speak, because between us and them is...well...nothing, in the sense that there is no universe or space there.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Bored and irritated rumination on Olber's Paradox
- 28/07/2013 03:21:37 AM
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I initially read that as "urinated." 
- 28/07/2013 04:17:47 AM
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- 28/07/2013 04:17:47 AM
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It's tied to the Copernican Principle
- 28/07/2013 05:09:58 AM
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That makes sense. Thanks, Issac! *NM*
- 28/07/2013 03:54:54 PM
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NP, just glad it made sense, my explanations often only confuse things further I think *NM*
- 28/07/2013 10:29:48 PM
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*NM*
- 28/07/2013 10:29:48 PM
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Expansion's a bitch, innit? *NM*
- 28/07/2013 04:37:26 AM
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In this case kind of the reverse, if it wasn't occuring we'd be flash fried
- 28/07/2013 05:17:22 AM
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I always wonder about the magic solution to fix the math
- 29/07/2013 01:30:23 PM
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Sure, that's basically what Dark Energy is
- 29/07/2013 07:30:00 PM
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I, in turn, always wondered how black holes would permit gravitons to function.
- 11/08/2013 09:37:39 PM
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They don't, yet they obviously do, that's the whole problem
- 11/08/2013 11:08:35 PM
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Probably the first and last time "man on the moon" was put on par with "plentiful free online porn."
- 12/08/2013 02:09:36 AM
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The latter is admittedly a far greater accomplishment
- 12/08/2013 05:06:17 AM
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Meh, porn predates civilization; its novelty has faded.
- 13/08/2013 06:36:13 AM
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I think most people would disagree
- 13/08/2013 07:09:38 AM
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Re: I think most people would disagree
- 14/08/2013 09:05:32 AM
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Re: I think most people would disagree
- 14/08/2013 06:11:34 PM
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Forgot to say: Seems an ACTUAL koan states we cannot find all answers because questions would cease
- 17/08/2013 03:14:18 AM
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- 17/08/2013 04:38:07 AM
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Interesting Read
- 30/07/2013 02:24:31 AM
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What if the universe is more like a sea urchin?
- 30/07/2013 04:04:56 PM
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