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Laws of Physics and expanding waists
« on: Sep 29^th, 2005, 3:06pm »

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Here's a little something I learned from New Scientist magazine today:

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Is your waistline spreading? Unfortunately you can no longer use the expansion of the universe as an excuse. While some things, such as clusters of galaxies, are known to stretch as the universe expands, physicists assumed that others, such as people, do not. But until now no one was sure why. It turns out that as long as the force - electromagnetic or gravitational - holding objects together exceeds a certain critical value, the expansion of the universe has no effect on them. This means that while you can't blame your bulging waistline on an expanding universe, at least we're not all about to be pulled apart...

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« Reply #1 on: Sep 29^th, 2005, 3:22pm »