Posted on 03/03/2025 3:55:04 AM PST by Lazamataz
Ok, so, I have a serious question.
Light is not infinitely fast, and it is the universe's speed limit.
Things that have mass cannot travel at the speed of light.
There are galaxies and objects over 93 billion light years away.
But the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years.
Even if Star A was travelling at the opposite direction of Star B, and even if it was traveling at the impossibly-fast speed of light, it could only be that the two stars are 26.6 billion light years apart.
But we see objects 93 billion light years away.
Please try to reconcile these two facts.
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Your answer is three letters.
God.
No matter how smart you get refer back.
Yeah. Kinda leaning that direction.
But to my mind, if I'm God, and I set up a bunch of physics laws, I'd probably try to follow those laws in my holy creation!
I missed the news that we see things 93 billion light years away.
https://www.britannica.com/science/parsec
“The farthest galaxies and quasars have distances on the order of about 4,000 megaparsecs, or 13,000,000,000 light-years.”
They have a chatbot at the site that you could ask...
The Big Bang is just our current theory. We will think of something more accurate eventually.
LOL
We don’t know the age nor size of the universe. There are many who believe the universe is infinite in age and size. That would answer all your questions.
Betchya one American dollar it involves God.
Sabine Hossenfelder on Youtube said it best last week.
Physics has become a playground for Academics instead of understanding.
Why work when you can get someone to fund your “research” that has no chance of ever coming up with an answer.
Your answer is the Universe is far more complicated than we know with our existing understanding.
See my #6.
I want some government funding. I will try to make a tape measure that can get us some accurate measurements.
It also would raise about a trillion new questions, like, what about Entropy? If it is infinite in age, Entropy would have cancelled all possible reversable processes.
Orange Catz are Tasty
Like Chicken so Why would
Anybody want to go a another Galaxy?
Have you tried google?
They might refer you to wikipedia where we are told, “The proper distance (measured at a fixed time) between Earth and the edge of the observable universe is 46 billion light-years[49][50] (14 billion parsecs), making the diameter of the observable universe about 93 billion light-years (28 billion parsecs).[49] Although the distance traveled by light from the edge of the observable universe is close to the age of the universe times the speed of light, 13.8 billion light-years (4.2×109 pc), the proper distance is larger because the edge of the observable universe and the Earth have since moved further apart.”
Admittedly, the current thinking is that we don’t really know how “old” the universe is, which would include how “old” time is. It’s a puzzlement.
It might make you unhappy to hear it, but the most Occam’s Razor answer might be that the God of Israel created both the light and the lights.
Certainly the size and speed of the universe should humble us.
We do “know,” however, that spacetime is one “thing.”
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