Wherever there is matter in an ever-thinning universe, there might be an entire cosmologically-sized era dominated by an entirely different chemistry to what we have now.
Wherever there is matter in an ever-thinning universe, there might be an entire cosmologically-sized era dominated by an entirely different chemistry to what we have now.
No, all space is expanding. The space up in space just happens to look like it’s expanding faster because there’s more of it.
Nothing “overcomes” expansion. Not even the speed of light. There is a hard limit on how far telescopes can see into the cosmos because after a certain distance, the light emitted by stars will never reach the earth. This happens because the space between that star and our telescopes is expanding faster than the speed of light.
Now when you go to the other extreme, like subatomic particles, the same thing is happening, just much more slowly. You’ll need something like ten billion trillion years to actually see any hard effects from that expansion, but it’s still there. After long enough, even the space between atoms will expand faster than the speed of light. Fun fact: gravity also works at the speed of light. That’s the heat death of the universe.