Posted on 07/08/2019 12:00:21 PM PDT by ETL
Fermilab
Published on Jun 19, 2019
The size and age of the universe seem to not agree with one another.
Astronomers have determined that the universe is nearly 14 billion years old and yet its diameter is 92 billion light years across.
How can both of those numbers possibly be true?
In this video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln tells you how.
For further information, see http://www.fnal.gov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJTwYOZrGU
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It's pretty darn interesting stuff, and still profoundly mysterious, if you ask me!
There, astronomers observed an amazing 3,000+ galaxies! Keep in mind that every galaxy contains from tens of billions (with a 'b') to hundreds of billions of stars.
The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region in the constellation Ursa Major, constructed from a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope.
It covers an area about 2.6 arcminutes on a side, about one 24-millionth of the whole sky, which is equivalent in angular size to a tennis ball at a distance of 100 metres.[1]
The image was assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Space Telescope’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 over ten consecutive days between December 18 and 28, 1995.[2][3]
The field is so small that only a few foreground stars in the Milky Way lie within it; thus, almost all of the 3,000 objects in the image are galaxies, some of which are among the youngest and most distant known.
By revealing such large numbers of very young galaxies, the HDF has become a landmark image in the study of the early universe.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real distances...
The Big Bang was Bigger than we thought.
God can do anything, that’s how.
For those of us who don’t want to (or can’t) watch a video, is there a way to answer the question in one paragraph?
The speed of light has not always been what it is today. At least that is my understanding. For a very short time period it was much much higher during initial expansion.
Global warming. Or Evolution. Pick your argument. (/sarc). You have to ask Evolutionists that since matter cannot be created nor destroyed where did that thing that went all >blooie< come from in the first place and secondly, how can life come from non-life.
And in terms of billions, they're of course referring here to light years, one light-year, the distance light travels in a year, at its ~constant speed of 186,000 miles per second, works to about 5.9 TRILLION miles.
On Inflation:
Isa 42:5
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
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Isa 45:12
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isa 51:13
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Jer 10:12
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
And will we inflate forever....I think not.
Isa 34:4
All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
All their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as fruit falling from a fig tree.
I suppose so.
Simple. By the time you get to the other side traveling at the speed of light, it will be 106 billion years old.
The speed of light is the speed limit through time and space. The inflationary period after the big bang was the actual expansion of spacetime and did not have any speed limit.
Higgs Boson + Dark Matter + Gravitons + Special Sauce
Because the expansion of the universe is not limited to the speed of light. Space itself was expanding, NOT the stuff inside it.
Tell every nuke bomb and plant that matter can not be created nor destroyed. Hell, tell half life that. ;-)
With apologies to Everett Dirksen of course.
No issue.
The width has nothing to do with its age. Expressing the width in light years is a measurement of size. It just means that it is so huge that light would have to travel for 92 billion years to get from one end to the other.
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