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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I thought science agreed that the universe was already shrinking in the middle of its oblong shape, and considered that the universe would split like an egg undergoing mitosis (as one of a few options, like decrease in expansion altogether and reforming a singularity)?