The effect of the Expanding Universe on turntables

LOL. Keep 'em coming, guys.

Wonder if that chassis a few days ago, ruined by too many used electrons filing it up will get a new lease on life due to this expanding thing?

As the chassis grows there could be space for more particles, adding useful years of service to this once great product.

I'm aware this depends on how often it's used in relation to the time it takes for the chassis to expand. Since I listen frequently, I wouldn't gamble on it unless it sat in a closet for awhile and everything got caught up.

Ahem, sorry for bursting thy bubble, Mint604, but Einstein shan't be blame for the shameful expansion of thy Rockport TT.
There is no need to invoke universal warping. . . your Rockport $70,000 audio jewel is behaving like a 25 cents spinning glob of pizza doe in the hands of a master pizzaro.
The platter expands from the ravaging effect of classic centrifugal forces on all those metallic conductive atoms in the platter, that are by the way radiating harmful EMFs like mad during their mechanical translation in a Gaussian distribution curve typical of a blackbody. But this is not the end of the nasty doey story: in turn the platter, expanding pizza like is pressing on the sides of its expensive pizzabox. There is really no mechanical cure to the messy problem.
Experiments have been made to manufacture TT platters from exotic materials with very low expansion coefficients, such as Rock Maple Butcherblock, Ebony wood, pumice, basalt, djasper, fossilized Gynko Biloba wood, and even frozen liquid ceramics imbedded with Quantum Dots in a Fibonacci series distribution arrangement. To no avail. All TTs failed after a spell. A new promising line of R&D is now attempting to simulate a superstable TT as a 3D holographic projection. A team conducted by Dr. Aloysius Qwantz Schmaltzenstein Gavronsky of the Appenzell Stadt Museum and Dr. Paolo Sibani of the faculty of Physics at the University of Copenhagen are expected to complete a musically functional prototype in the next 10 months. Stay tuned.
The advantage of the holo-TT is of course that -- being pure illusion -- it has no real moving parts, and shall be hence expected to be immune from the ravaging effects of centrifugal force. If the expansion were found instead to be relativistic, the hologenerators can compensate, as relativistic expansion can be computed and countered algorythmically. I'd be delighted to point you to some upcoming preprints from these incisive investigators, with one of whom, I am proud to say, I did attend grades 6th and 7th, in a distant time and place.

You're all confusing me--I'm going to have to read Hawking's "Timely History of Briefs" again.

(oops--err, wrong coffee-table book.)

All things are relative, of course, some more than others. Like this thread. It is so last century and multidimensionally challenged. Understandibly most confuse centrifugal force with centripital acceleration. Ever heard of a gyroscope? Ever heard of 'M' or string theory? Think your turntable doesn't have a vertical vector? What do you suppose has a greater effect upon the relative mass or size of your turntable:1)a 12lb Siamese cat lordosing within 1.25 meters of the power supply; 2)a 747 cruising overhead at 42,000 feet; 3)the Moon; 4)Mars; 5)the expanding universe. Guess what? Distance counts for a lot. Keep the cat away unless she really likes your Claudine Longet colection. You could save this membrane for at least a little longer by resisting her ascendancy to the NRAs guntelligentsia. My Walthar PPK is locked and loaded but who could not utilize a Glock 9mm. 9mm is the VTA of my Triplanar VII. Sorry.