eli5: If space is expanding faster than light in all direction. Why hasn’t the space between our atoms expanded to infinite?

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eli5: If space is expanding faster than light in all direction. Why hasn’t the space between our atoms expanded to infinite?

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Maybe it’s me but it seems everyone is misreading the question? My ELI5 answer is space between our atoms is expanding (not at the speed of light though) but the force holding atoms together, electromagnetism, is strong enough to hold the atom together. Similarly the nucleus of an atom is held together by the strong force.

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