<p><em><strong>With more space being created would there be more time in that new region?</strong></em></p>
<p>It's a perfectly reasonable question, and the answer is yes, new time is being created during the expansion. It's the time that the expansion takes to occur.</p>
<p>You can explain in more detailed geometrically, but think of the Big Bang as in the center of a balloon that's expanding. The 2D surface of the balloon represents our (3D) universe at any one time.</p>
<p>If it expands for one second, it gets slightly bigger. You got that much extra space and one second of new time.</p>
<p>What is the universe expanding into?</p>
<p>It's expanding into the future.</p>

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2024-08-07T17:30:53.700Z
If the universe were collapsing, time would also be increasing.
Peter Erwin
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2024-08-09T01:52:06.450Z
Yes, If time ran in reverse, the universe would appear to be collapsing. That's not the case however.
Miss Understands
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2024-08-09T12:42:27.040Z
The universe can appear to be collapsing even if time is increasing
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Miss Understands
<p>With more space being created would there be more time in that new region formed? Is the over all universe increasing in time? This is my first question so go easy on me. PS. Would that also mean that the kinetic energy of the universe is increasing? If not what am I missing?  </p>

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2020-02-22T14:39:58.390Z
What do you mean by time "increasing"? Trivially, time is always steadily progressing, but what does that have to do with the expansion of space?
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2020-02-22T15:12:39.113Z
With time and space being linked with new space being created. Would that mean there is more time to?
Dean Pitts
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2020-02-25T18:33:38.627Z
What I should have asked is How does the expansion of the universe affect time? How does time affect the newly expanded region of space?
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With the expansion of the universe is time also increasing?
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# With the expansion of the universe is time also increasing?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-02-22)

With more space being created would there be more time in that new region formed? Is the over all universe increasing in time? This is my first question so go easy on me. PS. Would that also mean that the kinetic energy of the universe is increasing? If not what am I missing?

**Tags:** space-time, expansion, observable-universe

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What do you mean by time "increasing"? Trivially, time is always steadily progressing, but what does that have to do with the expansion of space?  
> **username_0**: With time and space being linked with new space being created. Would that mean there is more time to?  
> **username_0**: What I should have asked is How does the expansion of the universe affect time? How does time affect the newly expanded region of space?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2024-08-04. Score: -3

***With more space being created would there be more time in that new region?***

It's a perfectly reasonable question, and the answer is yes, new time is being created during the expansion. It's the time that the expansion takes to occur.

You can explain in more detailed geometrically, but think of the Big Bang as in the center of a balloon that's expanding. The 2D surface of the balloon represents our (3D) universe at any one time.

If it expands for one second, it gets slightly bigger. You got that much extra space and one second of new time.

What is the universe expanding into?

It's expanding into the future.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: If the universe were collapsing, time would also be increasing.  
> **username_2**: Yes, If time ran in reverse, the universe would appear to be collapsing. That's not the case however.  
> **username_4**: The universe can appear to be collapsing even if time is increasing  

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