If Hubble captures light that is 13 bn years old and the universe is approximately 14 bn years old, how come we can see it?
Wouldn't the universe be a maximum of 1 billion light years across when this light was created and it therefore would have gone past us 12 bn years ago? I thought that the speed of light is an absolute limit, so to repeat the obvious it would have been produced when the universe was 1bn years old, but 13 bn light years across (mimimum).
Please answer ASAP as I need to sleep.
Thanks.
PS No maths please.
2006-07-07
00:40:33
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curious George
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