But the speed of light as we know it is only the speed of light in physical three-dimensional space. 3D space can be thought of as embedded in multi-dimensional spaces that our minds can never comprehend, and with that there can be unknowable metrics that have small distance in nDim-space even if immensely large in 3D. Visualize a sheet of paper (2D-space) folded over on itself. Two points 11 inches apart in 2D can be zero inches apart in 3D. Proceed by induction.
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“3D space can be thought of as embedded in multi-dimensional spaces that our minds can never comprehend,”
If our minds can never comprehend it, then how can we know it exists?
Moreover, if our current reality, let’s call it mortality, is just a temporary state, then we cannot truly rely upon the “laws” we’ve experienced to describe all the available information in the cosmos.
That is there is a cosmos, whose laws are unknown to us, governing our cosmos which is temporary.
An analogy would be trying to understand juggling by just noting a nanosecond of the balls trip upwards. We’d miss a big part of the act, no?
Ok.
Instead of matter expanding from one central location in (what is now) 3 dimensional space, how about matter arriving from still only one point...but arriving everywhere, at the same moment?
If "nothingness" surrounded what energy (entity?) was there (ok, a big assumption)...then expanding into it, could well enough put it "everywhere", following somewhat your example of the distances on a sheet of paper folded upon itself.
Under this manner of thinking, the "big bang", was both centralized (all matter in one very small "location") yet simultaneously widely universal.
Doing the metaphysical induction thingy, is funner than all 'git out...
>>But the speed of light
The concept of speed is dependent upon constant progression of time.
What happens to speed if time is not constant?
It’s all relative ;-}