>If that is so (and perhaps if it isn't, but I am not sure on this), then space itself is expanding, together with the matter that composes the Universe. Just as when you inflate a balloon.
An everything is on the surface of the balloon, nothing inside. And everything is receding then from each other as the balloon inflates.
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