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How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What's the Distance Between Us and Jupiter?

Between here and Jupiter, like how long it takes like to go there and back, it's not getting bigger every year. The space really is expanding, either by creating new space or by stretching that space relative to this standard of the speed of light. In the case of the two mirrors, there isn't any gravity to keep the two mirrors at a certain distance. So you can still use that to define a distance.

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