expanding universe
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An expanding universe makes measuring distance more complicated because space does not remain fixed while light travels through it.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
Belgian cosmologist and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre made that connection by realizing that the theory of general relativity described an expanding universe.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
I am an expanding universe swimming upward in a silent sea.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
