Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad!fx07.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Jeff-Relf.Me @. Message-ID: References: Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Gravity is the "memory" of where the stuff was. User-Agent: Jeff-Relf.Me/X.HTM Lines: 22 X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenet-news.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:36:47 UTC Organization: usenet-news.net Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:36:48 -0700 (Seattle) X-Received-Bytes: 1846 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3498185607 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:682647 sci.physics.relativity:457064 comp.os.linux.advocacy:449308 > > There is nothing (no thing) into which space is expanding. This is an > > expansion of the entire universe, so there can be nothing outside of it. > > I can't believe what I'm reading here, on this platform, in this forum. > It has to be another paradox. Your "nothing" stands for > the ABSENCE of time and space. You can't expand anything along that. 13.8 billion years ago, everything in the (subjectively) Known Universe was in the same location; i.e. zero entropy and infinite density/exergy. [ eXergy is a type of energy that can do physical work, force * distance ] Eventually, this eXergy will be consumed away, replaced with entropy; leaving us with a uniform heat bath that has all of the energy but none of the eXergy. Gravity is the "memory" of where the stuff was. All of history, every lesson ever, every advance, tells us: Randomness is ignorance, nothing more. General Relativity's four dimensional TimeScape is static, eternal, perfectly causal... it is, at once, everything _and_ nothing.