The Ever-Expanding Universe: A Journey Through Space and Time Our universe is far from static — it’s expanding, and not just at a steady rate. It’s accelerating. This mind-bending reality challenges our everyday understanding of physics and forces us to rethink what we know about the cosmos. But what does this expansion really mean? Let’s take a closer look. Imagine standing on the surface of a balloon, covered in tiny dots. As the balloon inflates, the dots move farther away from each other. Th