<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Spike Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">>></div>That was just one example, it you don't like friction then tie one end of a VERY long string to a bowling ball and the other to a bar magnet inside a solenoid…</font></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><i><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div>The string and the solenoid expand, so the expansion of space in that thought experiment does not pull the magnet.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">The string will never expand (unless the acceleration is itself accelerating) because Dark Energy is far too weak to overcome the chemical bonds holding the atoms in the string together. Dark Energy is even too weak to overcome the gravitational attraction between the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way, that why we're getting 250,000 miles closer to Andromeda every hour despite the expansion of the universe.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div><br></font><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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