Recent content by Ray J. Johnson Jr.

Question: if a Galaxy that is 5 billion light years away is expanding at a rate of x (excluding acceleration), and a Galaxy that is 10 billion light years away is expanding at 2x, wouldn't that mean that 10 billion years ago galaxies were expanding at 2x, but, more recently, 5 billion years...

Thanks everyone, for a good learning experience. I'm so glad I found this forum. After studying the responses and the links, I can only reach 1 conclusion: They should be saying "was." Saying "is" when referring to the expansion topic is misleading to anyone who doesn't have a high level of...

All the experts say that the universe IS expanding and the expansion is accelerating. They know because they've carefully measured galaxies from thousands of light years back in time to billions of light years back in time. Why do they say "is" expanding when "was" seems more accurate. I don't...