If one could go to an isolated region of space where there are no gravitational influences and the only force?

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acting upon them and affecting their frame of reference is the expansion of the universe itself. Would it be possible for them to resist that expansion force and maintain their position by travelling against its 'current' for lack of a better word? (The solution to this may involve pushing against other dimensions ) In other words. Is it possible to remain truely at rest in this universe relative to everything else?

acting upon them and affecting their frame of reference is the expansion of the universe itself. Would it be possible for them to resist that expansion force and maintain their position by travelling against its 'current' for lack of a better word? (The solution to this may involve pushing against other dimensions ) In other words. Is it possible to remain truely at rest in this universe relative to everything else?

In response to one of the answers below. I suppose that one of the ways to resist the expansion of the universe would be to burrow inward.i.e. to push against the 4th dimension in order to hold ones position in space-time. This is the kind of thinking I was looking for on this question.

Answer 1

I really like this question. Good Imagination but there are two problems:

1) gravitational fields permiate all of space out to infintity

2) The expansion of the Universe is reallythe stretching of the fabric of space-time. Thats right, You yourself would be and are expanding at the same rate as the Universe. Galaxies appear to be moving apart from each other in every direction becuase the space they occupy is streching.

Draw some dots on a balloon and inflate it. How could the dots ever resist the expansion of the balloons surface and come to rest?

Answer 2

In reality, no. Even if you are in between Galactic super clusters, you will still be pulled towards the most massive, closest one..

But you might be able to be in such a perfect spot that the galaxies will appear to move away from you. In this sense I guess you could say you are resisting universe expansion, even though its not really a force. Its simply the fact that things are moving away from each other because they want to fill up empty space.

Answer 3

If such a point could be found it would not be stationary and might not persist more than a small moment. The force vector of an expanding universe at any given point would be similar to currents in turbulent water flow. A static point would be quickly swept away by the constantly changing flow of forces and vectors generated by the ever changing structure of the whole universe. Tracking such a point would be extremely difficult if not impossible and would quickly become futile at best.

Answer 4

In a word, no.

But it is complicated. Gravity is everywhere. Even if it were weak where you were, it wouldn't be zero. And what would you hang on to? If you are loose in space, any tiny force will move you. Anyway, what would you be at rest relative to? The best you could do is have everything moving away from you, on average. This is exactly what we see. Some nearby galaxies are heading toward us. Most are heading away from us at different speeds, but then farther away they are the faster they are heading away from us. If you average it all, over the whole sky, it seems as if we are sitting still and everything chaotically churning around in different directions at different speeds, but on average everything is getting farther from us all the time.

Answer 5

the only place i could think of that would not be affected by gravity is the center of the universe. But in theory the center of the universe does not exist if the universe is expanding. Also universal expansion does not cause you to move. It only puts more space in between you and an object.

Answer 6

imagine if you made up all the matter in the universe and currently, you're not expanding. could you move from one place to another? in an infinate universe, how could you be any closer or farther away from anything?

but seeing as you're not all the matter in the universe, it is impossible to be so far away from everything that gravity would not affect you.

Even if you were "standing still" in the universe, the rest of matter is still expanding all around you. so to an observer, you are still moving.

Answer 7

I don't see where the expansion of the universe creates a force.

Answer 8

No, there is no absolute motion in space, everything is in free fall around something else.

Answer 9

There is no where in the universe where there is no gravitational influence.