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Orrex

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Wed Aug-17-05 11:31 AM
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4. I have a concern about the framing of this issue

Here's the snippet from the quoted press release:

Why is the universe expanding at an accelerating rate, spreading its contents over ever greater dimensions of space?

Is that the right way to ask the question? I mean, the universe is space (and time, of course), so to say that it's expanding through space seems redundant to me.

Am I misreading the sentence, or is it meant as a colloquialism? If the latter, then I think it does a disservice to its own arguments.

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