[camle]

uh nope.

if I stand 20 feet away from you, and 20 feet away from someone else, that does not mean that you and that person are 40 feet apart. In fact you can be standing next to each other, and each be 20 feet from me.

if we were all in a line, and I was in the middle and you each were 20 feet away, only under that condition would you be 40 feet apart. This is the assumption that you apparently are making here, but nothing in the situation shows this to be true.

Being that you and the other guy are each 20 feet away from me, can put either or both of you anywhere in a circle with a radius of 20 feet, independently of the other person's location.

And that is only in two dimensions. add a third and things get worse.

in any case, only if all three objects are colinear can we make the leap of faith that states that therefore their relative distance is twice their distance from us. Nothing in the supposition states that.

the distance estimate MAY be true, but it is hardly proven.

[mvpel]

So perhaps we're seeing almost to the other side of the universe, but not quite?

Suppose you take a line that's 50 feet long, and you position yourself at the center of it:

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Next, you look to either direction, and see two things that are each 20 feet away from you:

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This would lead you to conclude that the two things are 40 feet from each other. But the universe is curved - if you take either end of the line, and bring them together to form a circle with a diameter of 15 feet, then the two things that you are observing turn out to be only 10 feet from each other, not 40 feet.

[mvpel]

So perhaps we're seeing almost to the other side of the universe, but not quite?

Suppose you take a line that's 50 feet long, and you position yourself at the center of it:

------------------------- * -------------------------

Next, you look to either direction, and see two things that are each 20 feet away from you:

-----|------------------- * --------------------|-----

This would lead you to conclude that the two things are 40 feet from each other. But the universe is curved - if you take either end of the line, and bring them together to form a circle with a diameter of 15 feet, then the two things that you are observing turn out to be only 10 feet from each other, not 40 feet.

[uncbuck]

The distances from the earth were infered to be in a linear form, with th earth in the center. Therefore the galaxies are in there gretest distance from eachother, in relation to that moment in time.