expanding universe
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The theory began to take shape in the 1920s, when Georges Lemaître linked Edwin Hubble’s observations of receding galaxies with Alexander Friedmann’s earlier equations describing an expanding universe.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
“In the quickly expanding universe of cases involving sanctions for the misuse of artificial intelligence, this case is a notorious outlier in both degree and volume,” Clarke wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
As a crosscheck, an initial Webb observation in 2023 confirmed that Hubble measurements of the expanding universe were accurate.
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024
He said the company's order portfolio was strong and fully booked well into 2025, but the company wanted to test this expanding universe.
From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2023
There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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