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What Is Our Universe Expanding Into?

One question for Paul Sutter, a theoretical cosmologist at Stony Brook University. The post What Is Our Universe Expanding Into? appeared first on Nautilus.

One question for Paul Sutter, author of “The Remarkable Emptiness of Existence,” an article in Nautilus this month. Sutter is a theoretical cosmologist at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University, where he studies cosmic voids, maps the leftover light from the big bang, and develops new techniques for finding the first stars to

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