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Wait, Whut? (Stupid Vanity)
Curiousity | 03/03/2025 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 03/03/2025 3:55:04 AM PST by Lazamataz

Ok, so, I have a serious question.

Light is not infinitely fast, and it is the universe's speed limit.

Things that have mass cannot travel at the speed of light.

There are galaxies and objects over 93 billion light years away.

But the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years.

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.

But we see objects 93 billion light years away.

Please try to reconcile these two facts.

🤔


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To: Lazamataz
But the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years.

Misplaced decimal point?

81 posted on 03/03/2025 5:11:49 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Sirius Lee
Light has a speed limit traveling through the medium of space /time, but the expansion of that medium itself is not bound by the same limit.

That was incredibly rational and succinct. I think you've hit it.

82 posted on 03/03/2025 5:12:03 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Lazamataz

The light we see now was emitted before they were that far away.


83 posted on 03/03/2025 5:12:24 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Lazamataz
If time is expanding, why are the years going by more quickly?

I have noticed this phenomenon. Time isn’t expanding- we are slowing down… At least I know I am…

84 posted on 03/03/2025 5:13:23 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! đź”­)
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To: Political Junkie Too
The problem with light being massless is the lensing effect. If light is massless, then why does it bend around galaxies?

Well, that one is easier to explain. Spacetime itself is warped by gravity. The light, still massless, is changed in direction by that warping.

85 posted on 03/03/2025 5:13:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: FreedomPoster

And lasers travel at the speed of light!


86 posted on 03/03/2025 5:16:44 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! đź”­)
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To: Lazamataz
But to my mind, if I'm God, and I set up a bunch of physics laws, I'd probably try to follow those laws in my holy creation!

This is my belief only--I have no proof nor evidence that I am correct:

I believe that God set up the laws of physics after Creation in order to allow everything to run kinda automatically.

87 posted on 03/03/2025 5:17:47 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: A_perfect_lady; Lazamataz
That was incredibly rational and succinct.

Why thank you. Just a guess. God in His infinite wisdom is so far ahead of us in our understanding of how His universe works that it’s not even funny.

I think you've hit it.

That’s more of Laz’s wheelhouse.

88 posted on 03/03/2025 5:18:01 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Sirius Lee; A_perfect_lady
"I think you've hit it."

That’s more of Laz’s wheelhouse.

I suspect God can hit it better than me.

89 posted on 03/03/2025 5:20:28 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
And the outside edge of the universe isn't expanding, all of space is.

What is the difference between "the universe" and "all of space?"

90 posted on 03/03/2025 5:21:06 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Sirius Lee

I’m just impressed with how simply you phrased it. It makes perfect sense and is not wordy or complicated.


91 posted on 03/03/2025 5:21:45 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Lazamataz

My PERSONAL knowledge only goes back to the late 1940s. Anything earlier than that requires a certain degree of faith on my part. So, suppose God created everything in say, 1890 and just made it look older than that. Nobody who is alive can PERSONALLY testify that they saw anything happening before then.

So, who are we to say that the universe is only 28 or 38 or 280000 years across. We can’t put the Creator in a box, no matter how large we make it.

My God is infinitely larger, wiser, older than any of these human-sized metrics.


92 posted on 03/03/2025 5:21:54 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Lazamataz

That’s what she said. -Joseph


93 posted on 03/03/2025 5:22:32 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Openurmind

so then...the musketeers DID have it right when proclaiming “ALL for one and one for ALL “, a simpler way to say “I am entanglement and everything is one all at the same time”. I am now comforted in the one thought that one thought in a endless stream of thoughts are one


94 posted on 03/03/2025 5:25:15 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Lazamataz

Science says the speed of light cannot be exceeded..at least that’s what I understand.

Do we have an example where the speed of light is in fact exceeded.....even by someone with “mass”.

Hint: Jesus after his resurrection told Mary, do not touch me for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Then later he told the doubting Thomas to go ahead and touch him.

Clearly, Christ went to heaven and came back. But why? The Bible does not tell us. In her book Desire of Ages, Ellen White gives me the most plausible explanation I have ever heard about this event.

Christ would not accept the adoration of anyone until he was assured the Father had accepted his sacrifice. She describes the reception he received as he entered the gates ......The Father and the Son, and the Father accepts his full atonement for the sins of the world.

That is why she can say.......It’s as much what the Father thought of his son as what he thinks of us. His son and the few pints of his blood was sufficient to cover all the sins committed by all the world since the beginning.

Then Christ returns to earth to complete his brief stay before going back to heaven to begin his high priest duties.

Clearly, he surpassed the speed of light. He does things at the speed of thought. What a God!


95 posted on 03/03/2025 5:25:41 AM PST by vespa300
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To: A_perfect_lady

HA! I love a “That’s what SHE said” joke!


96 posted on 03/03/2025 5:27:28 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: Lazamataz

The solution is simply; pay the damn fune.


97 posted on 03/03/2025 5:31:06 AM PST by Wu (Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
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To: Lazamataz

“The light, still massless, is changed in direction by that warping.”

But is it truly massless? What can we measure photons against to know for sure?

https://arvinash.com/why-no-one-knows-if-photons-really-are-massless-what-if-they-arent/


98 posted on 03/03/2025 5:32:34 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Lazamataz

WWV


99 posted on 03/03/2025 5:33:15 AM PST by null and void (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity. H/T MortMan)
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To: Lazamataz

The solution is simply; Pay the damn fine!


100 posted on 03/03/2025 5:33:44 AM PST by Wu (Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
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