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Half-Borg t1_jdwmp9c wrote

Gravity is holding you together stonger than the expansion is pulling you apart. Expansion only wins for really large scales, like between galaxies.

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3yoshikageKira3 OP t1_jdwn6xm wrote

Replying to Half-Borg (#2,397,836)

Is there some point in the accelerating expansion that the gravity would start to lose? Or would that be unachievable because of something like the Big Crunch happening way before expansion gets that extreme

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mytauntmissed t1_jdwohpm wrote

Replying to 3yoshikageKira3 (#2,397,901)

I believe not, iircc the expansion is a constant (G). In my very un-qualified opinion, removing mass to decrease gravity until the constant is stronger would be plausible... but what would you have left to stand on?

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Half-Borg t1_jdwwgp3 wrote

Replying to mytauntmissed (#2,398,089)

  1. Expansion is not constant. It has changed a lot between the big bang and now.
  2. Expansion depends on the amount of space there is, more space equals more expansion
  3. This is called the big rip. I'm not certain what the current state of research is regarding that. But it won't happen for many billions of years.
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