Warp wrote:
>   I have hard time believing that. 

It's just what I've heard. Maybe you wouldn't notice the tides if you didn't 
look out the window, is what they meant. (I think I heard it from Sagan or 
Asimov or something like that.)

Your argument is good, tho. Thinking on it, I can't imagine how you wouldn't 
notice. :-)

>   However, this horizon is caused by the expansion of the Universe, not
> by gravity, and it's always relative to where the observer is to begin
> with.

I was talking about overall.  (You may be taking me too seriously. :-)

>> I think it was more popular before people found dark energy and thought we 
>> were heading for a "big crunch" or something?
> 
>   I think the word "found" is wrong here. It hasn't been measured; it's a
> hypothesis. (It could perfectly well be the *correct* hypothesis, but until
> it's measured it's just that.)

For "found" read "found the affects attributed to..."

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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