Jug, your logic on the 2nd point is a bit off. Remember, it takes light a finite amount of time to reach us, so your statement that
"the further from us they are, the faster they're moving away from us"
means that the further back in time we look, the faster objects were moving. Ergo, the expansion of the universe is slowing down. And with regard to the rate of expansion, since there's no center point of the universe from which to measure, there isn't really a sensical answer to the question.
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Jug, your logic on the 2nd point is a bit off. Remember, it takes light a finite amount of time to reach us, so your statement that "the further from us they are, the faster they're moving away from us" means that the further back in time we look, the faster objects were moving. Ergo, the expansion of the universe is slowing down. And with regard to the rate of expansion, since there's no center point of the universe from which to measure, there isn't really a sensical answer to the question.