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To: Boogieman

I understand that the speed of expansion is proportional to distance.

97-98% of the visible universe moving away from us faster than the speed of light, was a quote from someone on one of the Science channel shows... I have to assume that he misspoke when he stated this, if this is not the case.

Because my brain instantly went to, if 98% of the visible universe is moving away from us faster than the speed of light, how is it we even see the “visible universe” at all.


65 posted on 01/27/2020 9:07:58 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

He must have misspoke, or maybe he was just being dramatic. But yeah, we wouldn’t see many stars at all in the sky if 97% of the universe were moving away from us that quickly.


66 posted on 01/27/2020 9:12:51 AM PST by Boogieman
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