In 1929 Edwin Hubble discovered that the Universe is expanding, which led to the Big Bang theory.
Similarly, astronomers devote much attention to the apparent fact that the universe is expanding.
The observation that the universe is expanding is therefore a typical one if both versions exist.
Because the universe is expanding, any wave of light emitted from a far-flung source is stretched out.
Because the universe is expanding, most galaxies are moving away from the Earth.
Three American scientists were just awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the discovery of just how fast the universe is expanding.
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By measuring the red-shift of the burst's light (something that depends on how fast it is receding from Earth, and thus because the universe is expanding at a uniform rate how far away it is), it is possible to work out how bright it really was.
Perhaps the analogy to an expanding universe is a bit strong.
If that is the case, and the Copenhagen interpretation is correct, the fact that current observations show the universe to be expanding would be highly unusual.
As more people access the Internet through their phones, the digital universe of personal detail funneled through these handsets is expanding rapidly, and so are ways researchers can use the information to gauge behavior.
The only way the Hartle-Hawking wave function can explain an expanding universe with a reasonable probability is if the many-worlds picture is the right one.
Technology, after all, is an expanding universe and what was considered state-of-the-art in the 1980s is not necessarily state-of-the-art today.
Will we be pounding on the same doors instead of expanding our universe because the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?
"We're really expanding the part of the universe which is accessible to human beings, " says Hoffman, who logged 1, 211 hours in space during his five trips on the shuttle.
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