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[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Technically any object of sufficient size would colapse under its own immense gravity and form a black hole

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The universe is the biggest object there is and it's not collapsing tho...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The universe is not one gigantic solid object

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Many things we consider objects are mostly not solid, like stars made of Gaz and plasma... And the'res also gaz in the interstellar medium, albeit at very low density. So you still gotta make a hypothesis involving density to determine what will or won't collapse.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean I'm mostly liquid and I bet so is the dog

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And technically once it has collapsed it isn't very big anymore!

[–] CrayonRosary 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't the universe a sufficiently large size? Why is it expanding then? What constitutes an "object"?

[–] PoastRotato 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Most of the universe is empty space, and that's what's expanding. Empty space doesn't have any gravitational pull

[–] CrayonRosary 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Solid objects are 99.999999% empty space, too.

[–] PoastRotato 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but nuclear forces are strong enough to keep the space within from expanding and hold the objects together. It's in the vast swathes of emptiness between galaxies that we typically see the exansion of space because gravity is too weak there to keep things together.