Oh wow, this was a really helpful image. Thank you. Damn I should have studied this shit.

That’s fucking nuts. I need to know more. Thanks.

Ok, well that’s like, fucking insane right? Maybe my understanding of the concept of space needs revision because conceptually I believe space to still be an object, and nothingness to be space, meaning that an “object” is still moving across a plane (of nothingness) at a rate. But this isn’t very physical or scientific I guess

Ok this makes sense. But still doesn’t touch on how fast spade can expand, and whether there is a max limit to that. But I guess you’re saying that yeah, space still cannot expand faster than a certain rate, it’s just that the rate it expands informs a different understanding on the time plane. But space cannot expand faster than the speed of light, right? What I mean is just the raw rate at which the universe is expanding must be some function of an expansion rate even if it causes the amount of total space to exceed the distance achievable by the speed of light, right?

Thanks for the reply. Check my other comment too, I’m very curious.

Thanks for your reply. So then how can one explain why the rate at which this expansion process happens isn’t a function of the speed of light at all? If the analogy serves, I can only blow a balloon up as equivalently fast as the speed of light, meaning there’s some max distance that can be produced in some time delta between the ant and the target spot, no?

How is it possible? What does galaxies “moving away” actually mean? Isn’t the space expanding at the edges like a droplet of water or something?

Not Zen specifically tbh.