I've been wondering whether the forces of gravity actually exceed that of the forces causing the universe expansion. I'll try to claify. If the universe is expanding at extremely high rate per second, how does gravity hold our solar system together? Is the force of gravity stronger that that of the mighty expansion of the universe? It seems to me the earth, planets, laws of gravity would all be blown away and we'd be drifting (or dead) by being flung into space further, far apart from what holds us stablely by gravity here. Make sense? Again, I'm newbie just having questions in my head, but want to understand more.
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