[Blood of Tyrants]

Please pardon the misconception. According to the theory of relativity, light does not behave the same as other things. For example if you were traveling at 0.5 c (c = speed of light) in a spaceship and shined a flashlight ahead of the ship, the speed of the beam of light would not be 1.5 c and conversely if you shined it behind the ship, the speed of the beam would not be 0.5 c in the other direction. It would simply be c. Confused yet?

But of course since God created the theory of relativity, he can mess with the rules just to keep people who think they are so smart looking like dufusses (dufi?).

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Confused yet?

No, it just means that how ever fast you are traveling, light from you, will travel 186,000 miles a second faster than you are going. I think.

[DannyTN]

"Confused yet? "

Well, that's the way I understood it. But then it seems like the simple train station math ought to work.

If you have the following:

• E - Earth after 13 billion years.
• B - Location of the Big Bang
• X - Location of galaxy at 1 billion years after bang
• D - Location of distant galaxy now.
• S - The speed of the galaxies.
• C - Speed of light

  E<-----------B->X-------->D

  (BE)(S) = 13 billion (according to scientists)

  So (BE)(S) = (XE)(C) or the destance of the earth from the big bang time the speed the earth has traveled must equal the distance from point X times the speed of light.

  Therefore,

• (BE)S = (XB+BE)(C)
• (BE)S = (XB)C + (BE)C
• (BE)S-(BE)C = (XB)C
• XB = {BE(S-C)}/C
• XB = BE (S-C)/C
• If S=1/4C then XB = BE (1/4 - 1) = -3/4BE

  Or if Speed of galaxies = 1/4 the speed of light then point x should be 3/4ths the distance of the earth from the big bang. Meaning the distant galaxy would have to be 3/4 the age of the universe and that is as far back as we could look.

  The faster the galaxies go the further we can look back until we are going the speed of light and then we should be able to see the big bang itself. But the slower we go, we shouldn't be able to look back very far at all.

  The distance from the Bigbang to the earth times the speed of the earth

  I know this is back of the envelope math, but it just seems counterintutive to what the scientists tell us about being able to look back and see a young cosmos.