I like the hypothesis that the accelerating expansion of the universe, requiring dark energy to explain it, is illusory and can be explained by non-homogenous expansion.
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Did, blew a circuit breaker. Took the entire multiverse offline for an unknown period because time ceased to exist.
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It’s locally slow, but all of the space is expanding uniformly. So, if something is twice as far away, there’s twice as much space between here and it, meaning twice as much expansion, so that the distance between us and it is expanding twice as fast. So for things sufficiently far away, yes, the expansion is faster than light. For things close by, it’s very slow. It’s so slow that for anything bound together by any other forces (like how gravity binds galaxies, and how electromagnetism binds molecules) we don’t have to worry about expansion pushing anything apart, it isn’t strong enough.
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Thanks again for the clarification. So much of astrophysics is not intuitive, but your explanation makes sense to me.
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