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Varsect t1_j6wy7o4 wrote
Reply to comment by Old_Man_Bridge in Ask Anything Wednesday - Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science by AutoModerator
When we mean ‘falling’ we talk of being captured in a gravitational well and being forced to move around it if the body is rotating. And you can fall in accordance as long as you share a barycenter. So yes, we are technically falling in the Local Group's gravitational well.
>If everything is falling does the expansion of space mean there’s always room for everything to continuously fall?
Eh..... roughly yes.
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