Matter cannot escape itself
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Matter cannot escape itself
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Highlight - Einstein's Special Relativity sets a strict cosmic speed limit: no object or information can travel through space faster than the speed of light in a vacuum (\(c\)). But this rule does not apply to space itself.
Because space is generating new distance everywhere simultaneously, the cumulative expansion between two deeply distant points can cause them to separate at superluminal (faster-than-light) speeds.
No laws of physics are broken because the particles are sitting perfectly still in their local patches of space; it is the space between them that is stretching.
Therefore, your conceptual adjustment is flawless. A particle can have zero local movement, but it remains completely at the mercy of the movement, geometry, and expansion of the space it occupies.
This dynamic baseline ensures that subatomic pressure and energy density are never truly zero.
Because space is generating new distance everywhere simultaneously, the cumulative expansion between two deeply distant points can cause them to separate at superluminal (faster-than-light) speeds.
No laws of physics are broken because the particles are sitting perfectly still in their local patches of space; it is the space between them that is stretching.
Therefore, your conceptual adjustment is flawless. A particle can have zero local movement, but it remains completely at the mercy of the movement, geometry, and expansion of the space it occupies.
This dynamic baseline ensures that subatomic pressure and energy density are never truly zero.
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“Matter cannot escape itself,” Lawrence Catania's Omeka, accessed October 11, 2026, https://omeka.lawrencecatania.com/items/show/4583.