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This is not some attempt to discredit or debunk the notion of an expanding universe, or Big Bang, but rather the generally accepted explanation for what we see when we look out into the distant universe and how to interpret it.

It's pretty darn interesting stuff, and still profoundly mysterious, if you ask me!

1 posted on 07/08/2019 12:00:21 PM PDT by ETL
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The first Hubble Deep Field image taken in the mid-90s was of a speck of sky so tiny that a grain of sand held at arm's length would cover it. Its location was near where the handle of the Big Dipper attaches to the bowl.

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.

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2 posted on 07/08/2019 12:00:37 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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Hubble Deep Field (1995)

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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field

3 posted on 07/08/2019 12:01:06 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real distances...


4 posted on 07/08/2019 12:01:27 PM PDT by simpson96
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The Big Bang was Bigger than we thought.


5 posted on 07/08/2019 12:03:35 PM PDT by moovova
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God can do anything, that’s how.


6 posted on 07/08/2019 12:03:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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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?


7 posted on 07/08/2019 12:04:17 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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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.


8 posted on 07/08/2019 12:05:02 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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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.


9 posted on 07/08/2019 12:05:42 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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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.


11 posted on 07/08/2019 12:06:14 PM PDT by DannyTN
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"If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?"

Simple. By the time you get to the other side traveling at the speed of light, it will be 106 billion years old.

13 posted on 07/08/2019 12:08:03 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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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.


14 posted on 07/08/2019 12:08:07 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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Higgs Boson + Dark Matter + Gravitons + Special Sauce


15 posted on 07/08/2019 12:08:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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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.


20 posted on 07/08/2019 12:10:15 PM PDT by Innovative
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How about relativity? Temporal and spatial intervals are not a constant


21 posted on 07/08/2019 12:10:21 PM PDT by z3n
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Most people intuitively think that the Big Bang means that the Universe came into existence as an explosion of matter and energy into empty space. Actually, the process was the expansion of matter and energy and space time itself, with existence itself expanding so as to fill what had previously been mere nothingness.


23 posted on 07/08/2019 12:11:39 PM PDT by Rockingham
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How could Republicans hold both houses for two years and allow democraps to stomp all over them with a hoax investigation?


25 posted on 07/08/2019 12:13:15 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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I’ve been a fan of astronomy for 46 years and I watched the video a few weeks ago but I didn’t get it.


27 posted on 07/08/2019 12:16:16 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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I don’t see a problem. Size and age are two different things. The entire universe may have been created in one day 14 billion years ago.


44 posted on 07/08/2019 12:38:27 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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How can the Rio Grande River be nearly 2000 miles long but only 5 feet deep?.............


48 posted on 07/08/2019 12:41:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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Lets explain this backwards

The universe has a width. If one assumes the starting point to the edge of the universe were to travel at max speed (speed of light) then the universe can only be 2x speed of light x years old = 28 light years wide.

Measurements indicate that it is 92 light years wide - a significant difference. So either our observations are not correct -or- the speed of light has been different in the past -or- matter CAN exceed the speed of light

50 posted on 07/08/2019 12:43:31 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
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