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To: NormsRevenge
Astronomers today can look at galaxies more than 13 billion years away that were formed only millions of years after the universe began.

How can we see the light from a galaxy 13 billion light years away unless we are moving at least the speed of light away from it? IOWs how did our galaxy get ahead of the light coming from a galaxy that is supposed to be closer (or was closer) to the center of the explosion everything is supposedly moving away from?

28 posted on 04/13/2011 9:40:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye
IOWs how did our galaxy get ahead of the light coming from a galaxy that is supposed to be closer (or was closer) to the center of the explosion everything is supposedly moving away from?

The Big Bang created space. Put two dots on a small inflatable balloon and then inflate it. Those dots move away as the balloon inflates. If one dot radiates light it can be received by the other dot, even though both dots were "created" at the same time and didn't even move on their own (neither our galaxy nor our star system have engines, though they may have relative speeds.)

This also puts the limit to how far we can look in the Universe (you can't see things before Big Bang, and distance = c * t.) So 13.75 ± 0.11 billion light years it is. This also means that farther objects are unreachable and unknowable to us at this time; the light from them is still traveling toward us.

There is more discussion here.

33 posted on 04/13/2011 11:34:07 PM PDT by Greysard
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