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Comment by IsTom

9 days ago

All in all, because of light cones there can be no large-scale growth faster than x^3. And more like x^2 if you want to expand something more than just empty space.

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bsza  9 days ago

Depends on what the curvature of the universe is. If it's negative then it supports exponential growth.

  • IsTom  9 days ago

    As far as we've seen, universe seems to be very flat so far.

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