I've been seeing a few discussions about "How can the universe be this wide?", and I'd just like to take it a step further.
So everyone knows that the Big Bang, which started the expansion from a single point somewhere in the universe 13.7 billion years ago, was the "beginning" of the universe as we know it. So if that happened 14 billion years ago, meaning that the farthest light (including any form of radiation) has traveled since then is 14 billion light-years in any direction, how can something be 46.5 billion light-years away? Does this imply that that the Big Bang, in fact, didn't actually create all of the matter currently existing in our universe, and that there is more matter out there that hasn't come from that point of origin?
Say the Big Bang was indeed the beginning of the universe as we know it. That means the farthest our planet could possibly travel from that point is 13.7 billion light-years, meaning the farthest away anything we could possibly see is 14 billion
2007-08-15
18:43:34
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