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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Answer 1

Space gets a bit larger, components of atoms get a tiiiiny bit further apart. But then they go back to where they’re supposed to be.

Repeat this tiny step many times, space is bigger, atoms are not. Grossly simplified.