Eli5 if the universe is expanding, then why isn’t the earth, and everything in it (us) getting measurably bigger too?

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Eli5 if the universe is expanding, then why isn’t the earth, and everything in it (us) getting measurably bigger too?

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Because the universe expanding is a bit different in this case.

Imagine you have marbles and you drop then on the floor. Every little bit of time you move them a bit outwards from each other. That is essentially what the universe is doing when expanding.

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