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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Others have answered it well, gravity on the “local scale” of our bodies up to our galaxies is for now stronger than the expansion. But it seems the expansion is accelerating so eventually that big rip may occur.
You may have already seen it but if you are interested in the wider space side of this discussion, Kurzgesagt has a video on it. https://youtu.be/uzkD5SeuwzM?si=AeKx5JTlz5UN90R9
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