In the “Expanding Universe” experiment we took some supplies that help us get a visual picture of the universe expanding. We took a balloon and blew it up into three different stages barely blown up, half blown up and really blown up. Then we took marker and made points on the balloon (Representing the galaxies expanding). We labeled the balloon a, b, c, d, e for the other unknown galaxies and m for the Milky Way Galaxy. After when blew the balloon we took notes on the distance of the m to all the other letters. We measured the distance in (cm). Then we calculate the measuring patterns.

Everything represents the distance between each galaxy over the years and as we just learned every year the galaxy expand farther away from each other. The balloon represents the distance between the dots and the expansion over the galaxies over the years. The dots represent the galaxies slowly floating away from the other planets There are giant gaps between each galaxy that now can’t be seen with the naked eye.

I noticed with the points on balloon got a generally a lot bigger it got at least a 3cm increase. The farther away from the milky way point the bigger the measurement.

I didn’t know that the galaxies are that far away. The concept that the galaxies it was cold and close together that heated up in a matter of minutes brings very interesting theory.