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How can universe expand,i f we mass can neither be created nor be destroyed??

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The energy in our universe exists in many forms. Within matter alone, we got three states. Solid, liquid and gas. Energy as we see it in its basic view, can come in many forms or states also, something called the EM Spectrum or electromagnetic spectrum… Microwaves, Radio, Infrared, Optic, Ultraviolet, X-Rays, Gamma. We also got the strong and weak nuclear forces and of course gravity.

But that part I referred to above is what we know about. Things like Dark Matter or Energy, are mostly or totally unknown to us on how they work, what they are made off. And in that regard we're talking about the biggest part of the universe. Matter is just one grain of sand in the beach. Compared to the other parts.

We also got black holes, that again we got no idea what they really do. For all we know Black Holes are just another way the universe has of transforming something into another thing. Maybe black holes, turn the energy and matter they absorb into them, into dark matter and dark energy, in different amounts.

And if that's the case then even though the universe is expanding, the amount of energy is always the same, compared to what it was in the beginning. Nothing was ever really lost, just changed. And matter, that contains mass, generates gravitational pull and it's attracted to each other, then matter offers resistance to things like Dark Energy. So the more, regular matter is turned into those exotic forms, the more the universe expands. Not because energy is being added to it, but because what offers resistance to that expansion is gradually and steadily being turn into what's causing the expansion.


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