<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">Might there be ways to create more of it, enough to actively counter the expansion of space?  Could distant galaxies be pulled back so they never leave our lightcone?</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Even if a large amount of mass were kept clustered, entropy still takes its toll. Do you imagine that humanity has a chance of defeating entropy? An infinite source of energy would do the trick but I haven’t seen any lying around.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 18, 2023, at 2:33 PM, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 9:42 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> Strictly speaking, Space is expanding between<br class="">
> *gravitationally unbound* celestial bodies.<br class="">
> <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe</a>><br class="">
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Yes, gravity is the contraction of space.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Might there be ways to create more of it, enough to actively counter the expansion of space?  Could distant galaxies be pulled back so they never leave our lightcone?</div></div></div>
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