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It does mean that everything is getting farther apart, and because space itself appears to be expanding, things that are further away recede at a rate proportional to their distance.
What I'm wondering... The thing that I find mind boggling to the point that I don't even know just how I should pose the statement... Is where are the objects on the edge going?.. The two things that are furthest apart in the universe, what is allowing them to continue to move apart? (And don't say Dark energy.)
I know the "raisin bread" analogy for the expanding universe, but it falls short in so many ways. The raisin bread is expanding to fill the inside of the breadmaker, whereas the universe is simpy expanding and there's supposed to be no space into which it's expanding.
It's a pretty big thing for me to try to warp my mind around.
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