{"id":189602,"date":"2024-05-17T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/ask-ethan-are-we-expanding-along-with-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-05-17T09:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:22:50","slug":"ask-ethan-are-we-expanding-along-with-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/ask-ethan-are-we-expanding-along-with-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Ask Ethan: Are we expanding along with the Universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ask-ethan-are-we-expanding-along-with-the-universe3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overturned that picture entirely. The Universe, on the largest of cosmic scales, wasn\u2019t static and unchanging at all, but rather was dynamically expanding.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s true, and the Universe is expanding, then what else is expanding along with it? Is our galaxy expanding? What about the Solar System, planet Earth, or even the atoms in our own body? That\u2019s the topic of this week\u2019s inquiry courtesy of Jim Robison, who asks:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are part of the expanding universe. Does that mean we are expanding with it? Is the distance between the Earth and the Sun expanding, or between San Francisco and New York? Is the distance between the atoms in my body expanding? Is that why I need a larger belt?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overturned that picture entirely. The Universe, on the largest of cosmic scales, wasn\u2019t static and unchanging at all, but rather was dynamically expanding. If that\u2019s true, and the Universe is expanding, then what else is expanding along with it? Is our galaxy expanding? What about the Solar System, planet Earth, or even the atoms in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}