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To: ETL

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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No, 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.


34 posted on 07/08/2019 12:22:11 PM PDT by dangus
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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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Right, but the light from those distant galaxies has reached us, no? How could any light reach us that was more than 14 billion light years away, if indeed the universe is only 14 billion years old?


99 posted on 07/08/2019 3:35:38 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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