What Expands in an Expanding Universe?
ABSTRACT In the present investigation, the possible effects of the expansion of the Universe on systems bonded either by gravitational or electromagnetic forces, are reconsidered. It will be shown that the acceleration (positive or negative) of the expanding background, is the determinant factor affecting planetary orbits and atomic sizes. In the presently accepted cosmology (ΛCDM) all bonded systems are expanding at a decreasing rate that tends to be zero as the universe enters in a de Sitter phase. It is worth mentioning that the estimated expansion rates are rather small and they can be neglected for all practical purposes.
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Main Author: | PACHECO,JOSÉ A. DE FREITAS |
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Ciências
2015
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000501915 |
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