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Yes, because the "Hubble Constant" is expressed as km/s/Mpc (that's Megaparsec), and the value is thought to be around 70. 70km/s seems crazy fast, until you di
by reubenswartz 6y ago
Yes, because the "Hubble Constant" is expressed as km/s/Mpc (that's Megaparsec), and the value is thought to be around 70. 70km/s seems crazy fast, until you divide by the 3,300,000ish light years (each light year being about 6,000,000,000,000 miles).
Of course, if you calculate out far enough time, you would eventually end up with the observable universe getting smaller (because the stretching of spacetime would take away more space than was added by light reaching us from further away), down to our galaxy, and eventually everything getting torn to shreds, even down to protons...
In the "near" term, the effect is so small that we have much more to worry about from the sun expanding in a few billion years than the Big Rip.