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To: Boot Hill
"Consider the horizon problem, a staple of popular science books. Look out (with a suitably powerful telescope) at a galaxy 10 billion light-years away. According to the logic of the Big Bang theory, the light was emitted 10 billion years ago and is just now reaching this part of the universe. Now turn around and look 10 billion light-years in the opposite direction. You have successfully observed two regions of the universe that themselves are 20 billion light-years apart. Since the whole universe is only 15 billion years old, they will never be able to see each other or (since nothing travels faster than light) interact in any way."

uh nope. if you beleive this then you beleive that by "looking the other way(direction)" we can see 10 million years into the future. if we look at another galaxy 10 million light years away, it still is in the past, which would put it as a contemporary of the first galaxy.

if all the logic in this story is this shoddy, then methinks he hath consumed too many wee cups.

4 posted on 02/28/2003 6:05:19 AM PST by camle (no camle jokes, please...OK, maybe one little one)
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To: camle
No camel jokes? Spoil sport!

camle:   "if you beleive this then you beleive..."

Not so quick. Think about it again. No presumption of "seeing into the future". The author has a valid point.

--Boot Hill

5 posted on 02/28/2003 6:15:39 AM PST by Boot Hill
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