[DannyTN]

I'm still confused how they think they can see light from just 780 million years after the big bank.

If the universe is 13.8 billion years old, then Earth would need to be 13.8 billion - 0.8 billion (780mil) = 13.0 billion light years away from the big bank to intercept the light.

I've been told that inflation figures into it. But still Inflation plus the speed of the galaxy away from the big bang would have to equal (13.0/13.8)=94% of the speed of light for us to currently be intercepting light from 780 million years after the big bang.

Possibilities:

• The light went into wormholes sending it back to near the big bank. Possibly looping several times, giving earth a head start.
• The Q continuum is playing tricks
• Math error

[linear]

The earth is not the same age as the universe.

[TigersEye]

I’m glad you asked that it confuses me too.

I would have asked it more simply;

How can the mass that composes our galaxy, which began traveling from the same point as all other mass in the universe, and which does not travel anywhere close to the speed of light, be ahead of the light that originated in those galaxies approximately 13 billion years ago?

[Telepathic Intruder]

The Big Bang didn’t just occur at one point in space. It occurred everywhere, because the Big Bang is creating space as the universe expands. Furthermore, the farther you look into space, the farther back in time you’re also looking, because light from that space takes time to reach us. When you look at the Andromeda galaxy which is 2.5 million light years away, you’re looking 2.5 million years in the past. When we look 13 billion light years away, we’re seeing 13 billion years into the past, when the universe was only 1 billion years old.