ERBU, Expanding Rubber Band Universe

Abstract

I put forward a simple unidimensional mechanical analogue of the three-dimensional universe models of modern relativistic cosmology. The main goal of the proposal is the appropriate appreciation of the intrinsic relationship between Hubble's law and the homogeneity of expanding relativistic models.

9 pages, 3 figures. Portuguese version published by Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Fisica (Brazilian Journal of Physics Teaching) at http://www.sbfisica.org.br/rbef/pdf/364301.pdf

References in corpus (3)

• Note on the classical solutions of Friedmann's equation
• Einstein's static universe
• The age of the universe, the Hubble constant, the accelerated expansion and the Hubble effect