When we try to imagine the initial expansion after the big bang we see with the CMB that the universe went from initially smaller than a hydrogen atom to what we see today. However, when we try to measure the rate of that expansion it currently defies our current observations of the laws of physics, what if at those initial conditions time as we measure it was infinitely faster than it is currently and gradually slowed down to the point where now we cannot observe a rate change. To repeat my question above if time and space are linked then surely the changes in space will have some similar effect on time?
Einstein's big revelation was that time and space are inseparable components of the same fabric. Physical observation tells us that distant galaxies are moving away from us at an accelerated rate, and because of the difficulty (impossibility?) of defining a coordinate system where things have well defined coordinates while also moving away from each other without changing the metric on the space, we interpret this to mean that space itself is expanding.   Because space and time are so directly intertwined is it possible that time too is expanding? Or perhaps it could be contracting?
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