Originally Posted By: Bill6
For 'space' to be able to transport the material of the universe (be able to push the galaxies apart) it would need to be more than simply a void but would have to possess some form of a physical characteristic.


This bothered me for some time, but then I thought that if you imagine two objects in space; if space is static, these objects will remain at the same distance apart unless some force acts on them. A force is needed to move them through space, so if space is expanding, the objects must move with it, otherwise they are effectively moving through space; movement being relative, and all that.

There never was nothing.