Is the Universe Expanding? A Short Essay on the Cosmological Implications of Dark Matter and an Expanding Universe
Question: If the universe is expanding, does that mean atoms are getting bigger? Is the Solar System expanding? Mrs Felix: Why don't you do your homework? Allen Felix: The Universe is expanding. Everything will fall apart, and we'll all die. What's the point? Mrs Felix: We live in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is not expanding! Go do your homework. (from Annie Hall by Woody Allen) Dr. Roland's comments: Woody Allen is funny. Right now I will not say whether it is expanding or not. However, I tend to agree with Albert Einstein's 1917 paper on general relativity and cosmology. In a 4 dimensional curved geodesic space, using Reimannian geometry to describe gravitational movement, the only line that cannot be drawn is an infinitely straight line, which suggests a universe with mass is a finite sphere. But is the sphere expanding, like the surface of a balloon being inflated? If the universe is expanding, and it well might be, perhaps it is because God is still creating. Th