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If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?
YouTube ^ | June 19, 2019 | Dr. Don Lincoln - Fermilab

Posted on 07/08/2019 12:00:21 PM PDT by ETL

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To: Henchster

Even simpler, within a short time on your journey to the other side you would die.


61 posted on 07/08/2019 12:56:37 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: ETL
If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?

This past Friday night my bowling team was discussing this very subject in the bar..........We came up with a viable answer but I forgot what it was.

I think it had something to do with equating the universe to the contents of a box before the box is constructed to contain it.......or not.

62 posted on 07/08/2019 12:56:49 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: ETL

I doubt the creator God is limited to the speed of light. He created the speed of light. Probably with the speed of thought. His word. The first chapter of John. And let’s not forget. Christ ascended to heaven and came back. He told Mary not to touch him for he had not yet ascended to heaven. Later, he told the doubting Thomas to go ahead and touch him. So at some point Christ went to heaven after his resurrection and returned. We don’t know why but the best explanation I find is in the writings of Ellen White. To ratify the covenant he had made with the Father. To ensure all was good. And it was. She describes his return where legions of angels ushered him in. To shouts of glory and praise. His angels love him too. And the Father receives him. All is good, the sacrifice is acceptable and now Sinners can be saved. Too bad few will accept his free gift. That’s Biblical........Sorry.


63 posted on 07/08/2019 12:59:01 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: ETL

So after months and months of Youtube pushing this video on their home page recommended list, someone finally broke down under their onslaught and posted it on FR.


64 posted on 07/08/2019 12:59:50 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: ETL

It’s expanding due to too many pizzas.


65 posted on 07/08/2019 1:03:47 PM PDT by bgill
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To: ETL

My head hurts trying reel that in.


66 posted on 07/08/2019 1:05:36 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: bgill

It’s all Trump’s fault.


67 posted on 07/08/2019 1:06:11 PM PDT by huckfillary
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To: ETL

But the cool thing is that once we pass into the Glory of God all this stuff will make sense.


68 posted on 07/08/2019 1:06:28 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: ETL

A Year is a measurement of time but a LIGHT Year is a measurement of distance.

Isn’t is as simple as that? Like when Han Solo bragged about making the Kessel Run in 12 Parsecs... Also a measure of distance and not time.


69 posted on 07/08/2019 1:10:49 PM PDT by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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To: ETL
Astronomers have determined that the universe is nearly 14 billion years old

The 14 billion year old number is simply as far as we can see...14 billion light years.

That doesn't mean this universe is 14 billion years old.

70 posted on 07/08/2019 1:12:18 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
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To: dangus
there is an apparent issue. If matter flew at the speed of light away form the center of the universe for 14 billion years, then that would seem to mean that the universe could only be 28 billion light-years wide, The fact that it is wider seems to suggest that matter flew faster than the current speed of light.

Only in the very first minor fraction of a second is it thought (by some, based on Inflation theory) that the universe expanded as fast, actually many many times faster, than light.

71 posted on 07/08/2019 1:13:20 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: Innovative

You mean the universe stops at 92 billion light years wide? What’s on the other side?


72 posted on 07/08/2019 1:26:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ETL

Mind blown.


73 posted on 07/08/2019 1:28:06 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul.)
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Re: Matter cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be converted to energy, and vise-versa.—(me, earlier)

“The first law of thermodynamics, also known as Law of Conservation of Energy, states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another.”

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-chemistry/chapter/the-laws-of-thermodynamics/
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In physics, mass–energy equivalence states that anything having mass has an equivalent amount of energy and vice versa, with these fundamental quantities directly relating to one another by Albert Einstein’s famous formula:[1]

E = mc^2

This formula states that the equivalent energy (E) can be calculated as the mass (m) multiplied by the speed of light (c = ~3×10^8 m/s) squared.

Similarly, anything having energy exhibits a corresponding mass m given by its energy E divided by the speed of light squared c^2.

Because the speed of light is a very large number in everyday units, the formula implies that even an everyday object at rest with a modest amount of mass has a very large amount of energy intrinsically.

Chemical reactions, nuclear reactions, and other energy transformations may cause a system to lose some of its energy content (and thus some corresponding mass), releasing it as the radiant energy of light or as thermal energy for example.

Mass–energy equivalence arose originally from special relativity as a paradox described by Henri Poincaré.[2]

Einstein proposed it on 21 November 1905, in the paper Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?, one of his Annus Mirabilis (Miraculous Year) papers.[3]

Einstein was the first to propose that the equivalence of mass and energy is a general principle and a consequence of the symmetries of space and time.

A consequence of the mass–energy equivalence is that if a body is stationary, it still has some internal or intrinsic energy, called its rest energy, corresponding to its rest mass.

When the body is in motion, its total energy is greater than its rest energy, and equivalently its total mass (also called relativistic mass in this context) is greater than its rest mass.

This rest mass is also called the intrinsic or invariant mass because it remains the same regardless of this motion, even for the extreme speeds or gravity considered in special and general relativity.

The mass–energy formula also serves to convert units of mass to units of energy (and vice versa), no matter what system of measurement units is used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence

74 posted on 07/08/2019 1:34:22 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL
If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?

Easy peasy. The older you get the faster things sag.

75 posted on 07/08/2019 1:35:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


76 posted on 07/08/2019 1:39:30 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: ETL

Maybe it’s related to Mike Obama?


77 posted on 07/08/2019 1:41:42 PM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
"This past Friday night my bowling team was discussing this very subject in the bar..."

"I think it had something to do with equating the universe to the contents of a box before the box is constructed to contain it.......or not."


I'm available if you ever need a sub. Got my own ball and everything!


78 posted on 07/08/2019 2:04:54 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: leopud

This issue was addressed in the Mel Brooks movie “Spaceballs”.

Any speed greater than the speed of light is called “ludicrous speed”. ;-)

Current example: The Democratic Party is discovering new “oppressed minorities” at ludicrous speed!


79 posted on 07/08/2019 2:07:33 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: ETL
"However, in between the Earth and those galaxies is a mysterious entity called dark matter. Dark matter is invisible, but it does have mass, making up around 85% of the mass of the Universe."

Isn't it funny how every time scientists look deeper into the nature of existence it confounds them and they have to come up with something to make it all make sense again - if only to themselves?

Dark matter, dark energy, expanding space/time, etc... There really is no length they are unwilling to go to to make their "understanding" explicable. They can't stop pulling fudge factors out of their collective butts because the very idea that life is a mystery and we are not meant to understand it is beyond their ken.
80 posted on 07/08/2019 2:25:05 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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