• Waldowal@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Why couldn’t this still be “big bang”? Look at a grenade for example. When it explodes, a shock wave expands from it in a near perfect sphere, but the fragments previous packed inside of it explode out at different speeds depending on their mass.

    If you were in the center of that explosion, measuring the speed of fragments traveling away from you, they’d travel at different speeds. Only the initial shockwave would be constant.

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      8 months ago

      This is more like you measure the fragment speeds with both a laser and with radar, and get different readings off the same fragment.

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      8 months ago

      Maybe because the speed of things is not the same thing as the speed of space expansion.