Julian Leviston wrote:
> At 02:55 AM 29/03/99 -0500, Michael Lorrey wrote:
Just because something expands when you heat it does NOT mean that when something
> >Julian Leviston wrote:
> >
> >> If the universe is constantly expanding, how is it that we think that the
> >> earth is cooling down adn that the moon was once an earth but is now dead?
> >> Wouldn't it follow that if the universe is expanding, then things would be
> >> getting hotter, then the earth would be becoming more towards like the sun
> >> and the moon like the earth...?
> >
> >Not at all. In the simplistic logic you are using, expansion leads to cooling
> >(check the simple gas laws in any high school physics or chemistry book),
> however
> >the cooling and slowing of local astronomical objects has little to do
> with the
> >expansion of the greater universe.
>
> Ok.
> If I put some heat energy into a thing, then it expands. This is true, right?
> The heat energy is coming from some other source - say I am heating water.
The universe is expanding due to the momentum of the original inflationary period
exceeding the gravitational attraction of the mass to itself.
In the gas model you are using, the heat in the molecules causes expansion due to
You really need to go back to school and take some basic science courses before
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