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Farthest Galaxy Yet Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
space.com ^ | 3/3/16 | Calla Cofield

Posted on 03/04/2016 3:51:26 AM PST by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 03/04/2016 3:51:26 AM PST by LibWhacker
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does that mean, theoretically, that someone could see me 25 years ago when I still looked good :)


2 posted on 03/04/2016 4:07:52 AM PST by dp0622
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To: LibWhacker

In the beginning. So close to creation. Amazing!


3 posted on 03/04/2016 4:09:42 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I think they’re going to find objects much farther away than this, once the James Webb Space Telescope is up and running (around 2018/2019). With its ability to see far into the infrared, I think they’re going to find out that they really have no idea how big, and how old, the universe really is.


4 posted on 03/04/2016 4:49:55 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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For some reason my gut feeling is that these calculations of distances in the universe are way off. I’ve no evidence it’s just something nagging in the back of my mind. With all that missing matter and our incomplete knowledge of things certainty is uncertain.


5 posted on 03/04/2016 5:12:36 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: LibWhacker

bfl


6 posted on 03/04/2016 5:16:58 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: LibWhacker
One certainly has to take a lot on faith to believe all of the nuances of the Big Bang theory. GN-z11 is so far away that the light from it left 13.3 billion years ago. The laws of physics tell us that mass can't travel faster than the speed of light, yet somehow GN-z11 managed to get that far away from us, even though we started out at the same point at the time of the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago.

Oh wait, we can explain that by the fact that during the Big Bang "expansion", the laws of physics didn't apply after all. That explains everything. Then, what laws did apply?

7 posted on 03/04/2016 5:18:39 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: LibWhacker

All CGI.


8 posted on 03/04/2016 5:21:18 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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It’s not that the laws of physics didn’t apply, but that during inflation, space itself supposedly expanded faster than the speed of light. No laws were broken.


9 posted on 03/04/2016 5:24:10 AM PST by LibWhacker
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They keep changing the earliest time when galaxies formed to match their latest unexpected observation.


10 posted on 03/04/2016 5:24:14 AM PST by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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When the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, electromagnetism and gravity were all one force, the universe expanded faster than the speed of light. This was because there was no such thing as light.

Now nothing can go faster than light. Which means, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. If you could get the band back together you can do whatever you want.

I’m not a scientist but I have the mind of a comic book scientist genius and a comic genius.

By the way. I’m pretty sure Google put the Riddler out of work.


11 posted on 03/04/2016 5:29:07 AM PST by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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They say the universe has been expanding since the “Big Bang”. So why when we look at objects from just after the “Big Bang “ are they so far away?


12 posted on 03/04/2016 5:56:19 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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" during inflation, space itself supposedly expanded faster than the speed of light."

Riiiiiight. And the masses within space didn't expand faster than the speed of light with it? That would mean we're not 13.3 billion light years away from GN-z11.

As I said, it takes a lot of faith to believe in the Big Bang Theory.

13 posted on 03/04/2016 5:56:54 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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As I understand it, their logic was (The Big was 13.8 billion years ago - Red Shift of new was 13.4 billion years ago) = This galaxy formed a mere 400,000,000 years after the Big Bang.

Seems to me that the discovery of a galaxy this old should throw their assumption about how long ago the Big Bang happened and age of the universe into question.


14 posted on 03/04/2016 6:19:43 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state !)
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To: LibWhacker

Seems to be more theory than proof in this article and graphic.

So far, when we build a stronger telescope, we just find more of the same, and haven’t begun to find an indicator of the edge of the universe.


15 posted on 03/04/2016 6:47:48 AM PST by lurk
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Ooooookay... Objects with mass cannot move THROUGH space faster than the speed of light. That's the physical law Einstein was able to figure out. If two objects are stationary with respect to one another and suddenly a trillion miles of space begins to be injected between them every second, it'll will LOOK LIKE they are moving apart at one trillion miles per second, in violation of Einstein's law. But no law has been broken because they are not moving THROUGH space faster than the speed of light.
16 posted on 03/04/2016 6:52:35 AM PST by LibWhacker
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Stand 25 light years away and I’ll tell you.


17 posted on 03/04/2016 6:54:58 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: LibWhacker

As I said, it takes a lot of faith to believe in the Big Bang Theory


18 posted on 03/04/2016 7:06:22 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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I’m thinking that when God said “Let there be light,” there was a bright flash. Maybe a bang, too. But I wasn’t there to see or hear it.


19 posted on 03/04/2016 7:22:12 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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You’ll just have to take His word for it.


20 posted on 03/04/2016 7:38:19 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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