Wait, Whut? (Stupid Vanity)

Even if Star A was travelling at the opposite direction of Star B, and even if it was traveling at the impossibly-fast speed of light, it could only be that the two stars are 26.6 billion light years apart.

I was surprised to learn, when the Webb telescope was placed into position, that many scientists do not believe in the Big Bang theory. It was in the news because the Webb telescope was seeing things that contradicted the Big Bang. But that conversation was quickly dropped and I haven’t heard it since.

You have explained this so that even I can understand it. For that I thank you.

When I first looked through a telescope I never thought I would be pondering astrophysics and cosmology. I just enjoy looking through it, but one can’t help but ask questions, and that’s what we do.

For me, for now, God will suffice. But, He did give us brains, but we don’t have enough information to solve the problem because we don’t have access to that information. We can’t reach it right now.

The Answer Is Out There.

The "bigbang" , "steadystate" , & "astrophysics" keyword, duplicates out, sorted:

Universe expanding faster than physics can explain -- New evidence deepens cosmic 'crisis' [01/29/2025]
Universe's Expansion Defies Explanation: New Data Shatters Cosmological Models [01/20/2025]
Our Universe is expanding faster than science can explain, sending physics into "crisis" mode [01/18/2025]
Asteroid, Comet... or Something Else? Mysterious Activity on "Oddball" Space Object Raises New Questions [01/07/2025]
Bright Galaxies of the Early Universe Defy Expectations, Sending Astronomers Back to the Drawing Board [01/02/2025]
Oops! Newly Discovered Infinities Might Have Broken The Mathematical Universe..."This changes completely the landscape of large cardinals." [12/20/2024]
James Webb Space Telescope Confirms Controversial 'Hubble Tension' in Most Extensive Study of Universal Expansion [12/09/2024]
Mystery of the "Red Monsters": Webb Finds Massive Early Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist [11/15/2024]
These California counties flipped from blue to Trump this year [11/08/2024]
James Webb Telescope Discovers Quasars Where They Shouldn't Exist [10/21/2024]
Magical equation unites quantum physics, Einstein's general relativity in a first [09/08/2024]
Mysterious Antimatter Detection on ISS Sparks Radical New Theories [08/02/2024]
Astronomers Found the Ancient Light Source That Literally Turned On the Universe [07/18/2024]
Earliest Twin Quasars Irradiated Young Universe [06/19/2024]
Einstein Telescope to Usher New Era in Astrophysics With Observations of Gravitational Waves [06/14/2024]
Galaxies and galaxies and galaxies and galaxies and galaxies and galaxies and galaxies and galaxies and galaxies.... [04/17/2024]
Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old [03/17/2024]
Our universe is merging with 'baby universes', causing it to expand, new theoretical study suggests [02/18/2024]
The Big Bang never happened -- so what did?...Cosmic evolution without mythology [Part 1] [01/12/2024]
From Big Bang to Big Picture: A Comprehensive New View of All Objects in the Universe [10/27/2023]
Evidence the universe might not be expanding - Could we be wrong about everything? [07/26/2023]
Quantum Experiment Shows How Einstein Was Wrong About One Thing [05/15/2023]
The strongest evidence for a Universe before the Big Bang [03/30/2023]
Huge Piece Of Sun Breaks Off, Scientists Stunned [02/10/2023]
Earth's Inner Core May Have Started Rotating in the Opposite Direction [01/24/2023]
Rare cosmic event beamed light at Earth from 8.5 billion light-years away [11/30/2022]
The Universe as We Understand It May Be Impossible [10/27/2022]
They assure that the closest "black hole" to Earth is a "vampire" star system [09/21/2022]
SCIENTISTS PUZZLED BECAUSE JAMES WEBB IS SEEING STUFF THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE. "THE MODELS JUST DON'T PREDICT THIS..." [08/30/2022]
The Big Bang didn't happen [08/17/2022]
The most distant rotating galaxy hails from 13.3 billion years ago. The galaxy started spinning just 500 million years after the Big Bang [07/14/2022]
New discovery about distant galaxies: Stars are heavier than we thought [05/26/2022]
Christ Is The Dark Matter Scientists Are Looking For [05/23/2022]
Ghostly Unseen "Mirror World" Might Be Cause of Cosmic Controversy With Hubble Constant [05/21/2022]
A Powerful 'Space Laser' Has Been Detected Beaming FROM Deep Space [04/08/2022]
Scientists watch enormous star violently explode after ominous goodbye [01/08/2022]
NASA To Launch Telescope Stronger Than Hubble That Can See Back In Time [12/23/2021]
NASA's New X-Ray Telescope Is A Revolution in Astronomy and Launch Profiles [SpaceX, Van Allen Belt, South Atlantic Anomaly] [12/11/2021]
Earth's lower atmosphere is expanding due to climate change [11/14/2021]
Physicists Just Accidentally Made a New Discovery About Black Holes [09/13/2021]
Danish Student solves how the Universe is reflected near black holes [07/14/2021]
New type of supernova discovered by astronomers [06/29/2021]
The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolved. Because it's unsolvable. [11/19/2020]
There's too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from [10/01/2020]
The True Origins of Gold in Our Universe May Have Just Changed, Again [09/16/2020]
Hubble Has Looked Back in Time as Far as It Can And Still Can't Find The First Stars [06/08/2020]
Distant 'quasar tsunamis' are ripping their own galaxies apart [03/25/2020]
UCF researchers discover mechanisms for the cause of the Big Bang [11/02/2019]
A new Einstein cross is discovered [03/20/2019]
"The Phantom Universe" -- There's a New 'Unknown' Messing with the Cosmos [03/10/2019]
Something Is Not Quite Right In the Universe, Ultraprecise New Measurement Reveals [02/09/2019]
Mysterious interstellar object could be 'lightsail' sent from another civilization [11/05/2018]
The Universe as We Understand It May Be Impossible: A new conjecture in physics [tr] [08/13/2018]
Universe's Expansion Rate Is Different Depending on Where You Look [07/17/2018]
Does Dark Energy Exist? [07/01/2017]
Astrophysicist Challenges View That We're Here by Accident [12/06/2016]
Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time [01/19/2016]
NASA Says Indian Scientist's Theory Is Correct, Black Holes Don't Really Exist [11/29/2015]
Goodbye Big Bang, Hello Black Hole? A New Theory Of The Universe's Creation [09/30/2015]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Arp 159 and NGC 4725 [09/03/2015]
Scientists Confirm the Existence of Cosmic Neutrinos [08/22/2015]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Supernova 1994D and the Unexpected Universe [05/31/2015]
Advanced Ligo gravitational wave hunt is green lit [05/20/2015]
Collapse of the universe coming sooner than expected according to new research [03/27/2015]
How Do We Know Dark Matter Exists? [03/12/2015]
Giant Methane Storms On Uranus [03/10/2015]
Quantum Equations Suggest Big Bang Never Happened [02/26/2015]
The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart [01/20/2015]
Dark matter could be seen in GPS time glitches [11/19/2014]
Not So Far [11/12/2014]
Is there definitive evidence for an expanding universe? [08/19/2014]
Problems with the Big Bang Expanding Universe Theory [05/02/2014]
Goodbye Big Bang, hello black hole? A new theory of the universe's creation [09/19/2013]
Physicists suggest possible existence of other kinds of dark matter [05/26/2013]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- A Redshift Lookup Table for our Universe [04/08/2013]
Harry Kroto: From light years to nanometres -- and back [03/21/2013]
New Chemical Reaction Could Explain How Stars Form, Evolve, and Eventually Die [12/08/2012]
How Black Holes Shape the Galaxies, Stars and Planets around Them [07/26/2012]
Does this picture show the 'ghost' of a universe that existed before the Big Bang? [06/12/2012]
Has Dark Matter Gone Missing? [04/19/2012]
A star explodes and turns inside out [04/04/2012]
How black holes grow [04/03/2012]
New data support Einstein on accelerating universe [04/03/2012]
German astronomers have discovered an ancient planetary system dating from 13 billion years ago [03/30/2012]
Physicists find patterns in new state of matter [03/29/2012]
Pulsars: The universe's gift to physics [03/28/2012]
The Moon's Long Lost Twin Found [03/24/2012]
How Many Unbound Planets in Milky Way? [03/23/2012]
How Big is the Sun, Really? [03/23/2012]
Scientists tell of 'runaway' planets [03/22/2012]
Retest of neutrino speed suggests Einstein was right, after all [03/19/2012]
Smooth Sailing on Titan [03/18/2012]
Here's One Reason The Moon's Gravity Is So Important To The Military [03/17/2012]
The Lost Siblings of the Sun [03/12/2012]
Loose cable blamed for speedy neutrinos [03/06/2012]
Water not so squishy under pressure [03/06/2012]
Diet of a dying star [03/06/2012]
Antimatter Belt Found Circling Earth [08/12/2011]
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- The Universe Nearby [06/14/2011]
New candidate for most distant object in universe [05/25/2011]
Betelgeuse 'not likely to explode in 2012' [01/22/2011]
Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way [01/19/2011]
The Pioneer Anomaly, a 30-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery, May Be Resolved At Last [12/16/2010]
Who says the Sun controls our weather and climate? An interview with astrophysicist Piers Corbyn [08/04/2010]
Planet Found With Comet-like Tail [07/21/2010]
Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? [04/14/2010]
Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say Physicists [03/27/2010]
Star Keeps Magnetic Lock on Its Big Brother [01/18/2010]
Astronomers witness biggest star explosion [12/03/2009]
Beauty from the Bottom of the Universe (astrophysicist speaks on faith and science) [10/08/2009]
New astrophysical discoveries leave little to no room for Atheism, expert says [09/30/2009]
The Biblical roots of modern science [09/29/2009]
Gravity waves 'around the corner' [08/22/2009]
Glimpse of Earth as seen from afar - Lunar eclipse paints portrait of Earth that could aid... [06/11/2009]
First supernovae blew early galaxies apart [06/04/2009]
Dark matter intrigue deepens - Space telescope may have glimpsed hint of mystery particles. [05/08/2009]
Lights Out for Dark Matter Claim? [05/05/2009]
A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field [12/16/2008]
'Cosmology is not even astrophysics' ("biblical big picture is far more believable than...Big Bang") [12/04/2008]
Cosmic-ray hot spots puzzle researchers - Proton discovery may cast doubt on dark-matter... [11/29/2008]
New findings reveal that the shape of the Universe is a Dodecahedron based on Phi [09/28/2008]
Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space [09/25/2008]
Physicists discover 'dark flow' motion [09/25/2008]
Uncommon Earth - Simulation shows the solar system could only form under rare conditions [08/07/2008]
Catholic University professor pioneers lunar telescope-making method [07/11/2008]
Where mathematics and astrophysics meet [06/06/2008]
Arguments that Prove that Climate Change is driven by Solar Activity and not by CO2 Emission [05/26/2008]
Dark Understanding of Matter [03/25/2008]
Boffin stacks 16 PS3s to simulate black hole collisions [03/05/2008]
Spinning black hole pushes the speed limit [11/24/2006]
Hubble telescope makes new discovery [11/16/2006]
Russia to orbit world's most powerful telescope by 2008 [10/03/2006]
The Principle of Mediocrity [cosmological speculations of Alexander Vilenkin] [09/18/2006]
General relativity survives gruelling pulsar test -- Einstein at least 99.95% right [09/13/2006]
Vote Makes It Official: Pluto Isn't What It Used to Be [08/25/2006]
No black holes after all? [08/22/2006]
From the present to the past [Stephen Hawking] [07/04/2006]
Black holes actually green: official [04/25/2006]
Study finds two supermassive black holes spiraling toward collision [04/06/2006]
Darwinism Completely Refutes Intelligent Design [12/27/2005]
Crisis In The Cosmos? [10/13/2005]
Timekeeping Proposal Sparks Row ( Don't Let THEM Abolish Leap Seconds) [09/28/2005]
New cosmic look may cast doubts on big bang theory [Who Woulda Thunk It] [08/03/2005]
Making the Universe a Little Closer and Brighter [04/26/2005]
A Philanthropist of Science Seeks to Be Its Next Nobel [04/20/2005]
Galaxy Observations Show No Change In Fundamental Physical Constant [04/19/2005]
Are We Alone? - [A PBS/Nova interview from July, 2004] [03/25/2005]
Astronomical surprise: Massive old galaxies starve to death in the infant universe [03/21/2005]
13 things that do not make sense [03/17/2005]
'Red and dead' galaxies surprise astronomers [03/12/2005]
Leaking Gravity May Explain Cosmic Puzzle [02/28/2005]
Misconceptions about the Big Bang [02/24/2005]
Parallel Universes exist in other Circuits, Indian Cosmo Theorist - [02/21/2005]
Going Beyond Einstein: Spacetime Wave Orbits Black Hole [01/14/2005]
Universe's big secret solved [01/12/2005]
Can A 'Distant' Quasar Lie Within A Nearby Galaxy? [01/10/2005]
Dinocrat: "3 - 4 million Democrats voted for Bush: can they be coaxed back or replaced?" [12/13/2004]
How the Early Universe Got Dusty Remains a Mystery [12/08/2004]
A Great Site For all FReeper Astronomy buffs! [12/03/2004]
Massive Black Hole Stumps Researchers [06/28/2004]
Constant as the North Star? More Like Fickle [05/31/2004]
By X-Raying Galaxies, Researchers Offer New Evidence of Rapidly Expanding Universe [05/19/2004]
What Is a Cosmos? [04/19/2004]
BRUISED BRAINIAC (Cops investigate mysterious assaults on crippled astrophysicist Stephen Hawking) [01/21/2004]
Tests Suggest Scientists Have Found Big Bang Goo [01/15/2004]
Supernovae Survey Provides New Clues To Nature Of Mysterious Dark Energy [09/18/2003]
The Big Bang and the Big Question: A Universe without God? [06/23/2003]
Is Light Slowing Down? [06/22/2003]
Do We Live In A "Stop And Go" Universe? [05/27/2003]
The Electric Universe - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence [05/03/2003]
The Big Rip: New Theory Ends Universe by Shredding Everything [03/11/2003]
Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution [02/19/2003]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 2-09-03 [02/09/2003]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 1-24-03 [01/23/2003]
Scientists Seek 'Dark Energy' That's Filling In the Universe [10/20/2002]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 10-07-02 [10/06/2002]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 9-27-02 [09/27/2002]
"Runaway Universe" May Collapse In 10 Billion Years, New Studies Predict [09/17/2002]
Subaru Discovers an Exploding Galaxy at the Edge of the Universe [08/24/2002]
Inconstant Speed of Light May Debunk Einstein [08/08/2002]
The Sun: A Great Ball of Iron? [07/17/2002]
Is the Universe older than expected? [07/11/2002]
Asteroid detected in a close call with Earth [06/20/2002]
MESSIAH: 2030/ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT WILL ERUPT INTO SIXTH ARAB-ISRAELI WAR & BE OVER IN 2003! [05/22/2002]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 4-6-02 [04/05/2002]
Astronomy Picture of the Day [03/18/2002]
The Collapse of the Big Bang and the Gaseous Sun [03/17/2002]
Astronomy Picture of the Day 3-10-02 [03/10/2002]
Astronomy Picture Of The Day 3-11-02 [03/10/2002]
The Universe Might Last Forever, Astronomers Say, but Life Might Not [01/07/2002]

If we are in the middle and can see x lightyears to the right and x lightyears to the left, that doesn’t mean those two star to our left and right can see each other at xx lightyears apart.

We have to assume there are stars beyond those “furthest” stars that they can see and we cannot. And a Laz counterpart on the “left” star is pondering the same question, and if the “right” star exists.

But I do like the cat theory...

My understanding (which is not great) is that the universe is expanding.

Imagine two airport style people movers moving in opposite directions. They mimic space expanding.

Then imagine two people on the people movers moving at the speed of light in opposite directions from one another.

They would end up farther away from each other then the distance light travels times 2 because of the expanding nature of space.

I’m not saying I necessarily believe that but that is the answer you would be given.

Laz,

UFOs are spotted thousands of times by credible observers. They don't behave like anything we can build. One intelligent conclusion would be to suspect they come from far away. Due to our theories of the cosmos, many say that is just plain impossible. Yet, they are clearly being observed. Rather than place those theories under suspicion, the UFOs were simply ignored.

Your recent quandary with essentially the very same issue does raise the eyebrows. I suppose it is best to assume what is observed isn't true, so just ignore it. Rather than questioning the quality of our knowledge, the proper scientific response is to ignore your lying eyes.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.