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Originally posted by Pooeypants,+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Pooeypants,)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin-Impenitent,
*no space is nothing...
*there is no edge... there is nothing... nothing here, nothing there, nothing, nothing nothing... between objects there is nothing... that nothing you can measure... but if you travel from an object into nothing with no object to stop your travels, how do you know when you have gotten to the end of nothing?... you cannot know... there is nothing, and no end to nothing...
*there is no edge of nothing to expand
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This is where you are mistaken, at the quantum level, the spacetime is full of flucuations, its effects can measured in the form of the Cassini effect. Wheras real emptiness wouldn't have this property hence your attempt to call it nothing is invalid.
*so are you saying there is no space? completely filled with fluctuations? real vacuum, real emptiness, real space, real nothing is valid. your ether with a different name is invalid
Also, if the known universe is what we can observe, and we see the observed universe to be moving apart in all directions, the only word we can use to describe this phenomenon is that the Universe is expanding. Even if it is expanding into nothing, the description is valid.
*no, it is not valid... the distance between the left edge of the universe and the right edge of the universe has not increased... there are no edges... it cannot be measured... to say it is increasing is an error
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