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This expanding-Universe concept is easy to phrase
in words as reported, but
lucid comprehension of its import involves experientially
"impossible," three-dimensional,
space-motion conceptionalizing, for in order to travel
away cosmically from each of all the
spherically surrounding galaxies of our Milky Way, any
one of the billions of galaxies
seemingly would have to go outwardly in all directions
in order to go away from each of
them simultaneously. Obviously, however, this could
not be accomplished by any one of
them moving in only one direction__which is humanity's
way of thinking of motion-unless
there were a center of galaxy of Universe outwardly
from which all others move exactly
and only radially, or unless all of Universe and all
of the galaxies and each and all
phenomena within them, including the smallest nuclear
particle, are either expanding
systematically and simultaneously or are shrinking systematically
and simultaneously, all
changing in size at a rate that is just a bit faster
than the speed of light, with either the
universal contraction or universal expansion of all
points in Universe producing the same
effect of uniform withdrawal from one another.
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