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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We went over this, we observe the distance between galaxies increasing, but the distance between atoms has not.

The expansion happens everywhere, but subatomic forces massively overpower the expansion, so atoms don't expand.

Likewise, raisins are strong enough to not get pulled apart by the expanding bread. There may be slight force on them, but the bread expanding by a factor of 2 leaves the raisins the same size.

I don't understand how you think a change in distance can be detectable by light between galaxies, but not detectable by like between ends of a metre bar, or between electrons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You are correct that the raisins would have other constraints to keep it from infitatly expanding into nothing. Not because it's not expanding but because it has external constraints like gravity keeping it there.

They do have expansion applied to them, but gravity and other things effecting space time would be keeping it on place.

As for attoms, I think you picture something solid. But there's not. The electrons are getting further from the nucleas, but it's still bound quantum mechanically to the attoms regardless of its position.

But then the nucleas isn't soldi either. It's made of smaller things yet, and so on and so forth. So inside would also be expanding. But again other forces at play would bind things together.

The expansion is also not a force. It can't overcome other forces so it keeps things in line.