If nothing can travel faster than light, how fast were things travelling when the Universe first exploded?

Answer 1

When our part of the Universe exploded (nothing says that the other parts of the Universe were not happily going about their business in far distant galaxies scattered all about ours) it may be projected that things were traveling at 50,000 miles per hour or so as a result of the initial explosion. That is no where near the speed of light. However, light, heat and radiation (X Rays, Gamma Rays, etc.) rays from the explosion surely traveled outward at the normal speed of light. I don't think there is anything to suggest that those things moved any faster or slower than they normally do.

Be advised that Stars have been exploding and re-combining with other debris and other Stars for many billions of years. Our event was just one of many that have occured over time. In order to get a grip on some of this theory, you have to open your mind to the possibility that the Earth (for example) is some 4 billion years old, and that "our" Solar System (the Sun, and 9 Planets with their Moons) appears to be maybe 10 billion years old. Stars can grow to maturity in about 20 billion years to 60 billion years, depending upon the type of Star. Those huge time spans take a bit of swallowing to digest. The same may be said of distances to some of the far galaxies that surrond us. Some of them are several million Light Years away from us floating along in the Milky Way Galaxy. That is indeed a long, long way away.

Answer 2

The Speed of Light is constant in a vacuum- irrespective if you are travelling at the speed of light or stationary - when you observe the speed of light it will always be 186,000 km/sec. This is a fundamental fact.
The universe was created at the Big Bang explosion all physics came into being at that time; the rules were the same then as they are now. The Universe expanded at the speed of light ; the matter of physical particles were confined also to the speed of light. As the universe expanded more matter was expelled - thereby creating a gravitational brake on matter due to mutual attraction of particles and gravity waves.

Its like when your making custard the harder you stir the starch the more resitance there is.

Answer 3

At the instance of the Big Bang the "universe" was so dense that the laws of physics as we know them likely did not apply. In fact space itself may not have existed before the explosion. Some believe that there was also a super expansion. At some point the speed of light (in a vacuum) became a constant as we know it but may travel through space that has been affected (bent) by nearby gravitational mass. Light can not escape from a black hole meaning that it can not travel at the speed of light as we know it. It is still light (photons) and has speed. Light would return to the black hole like throwing a baseball up in the air under the influence of earth's gravity.

Answer 4

A photon traveling through space is an incident.
An incident requires a certain amount of time to take place.
If you try to speed up a photon you are trying to force it to exist for a period of time that is shorter than can exist in the universe
This principle came into existence when the first space-time pulse occurred,some time after point zero
Once the explosion Acceleration reached the speed of .light the acceleration stopped and the universe continued at a radial velocity of "C"

Answer 5

i imagine you're false impression the concept right here. The universe "area" isn't getting more suitable...it particularly is absurd. Now, the galaxies are increasing and getting farther and farther aside (no longer all some crash into one yet another) which promises the allusion that are universe is increasing, yet what's actual increasing? in case you've been to bypass there and witness the boom first hand would there nonetheless be an section vacuum ahead of the boom?? i imagine so, it is nonetheless area. do not take those documentaries so heavily....each little thing remains hypothesis. i'm advantageous in the experience that your interested in this you've heard of "The Universe" dvd sequence and if no longer I strongly propose you pay close interest because they even state rather in a lot of cases that each little thing is all hypothesis....we've not left our personal image voltaic device yet (as well voyager).

Answer 6

Anything travelling at the speed would have infinite mass so therefor would require an infinite force to propell it along, as any physicist would tell you

To observe anything light needs to reflect off of it so we can see it

So if there is anything travelling faster than light how the hell would you be able see it?!!!

So keep your head down at all times just in case because when it does hit you won't see it coming, it'll be f***ing heavy and it's going to hurt!!!
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Answer 7

Why do people think there was a Big Bang?? I know Einstin said so but... wheres the proof?? And like someone else said, who said there's not something elses in the universe that moves much faster than light???
If there was a Big Bang then things were moving at a phenominal rate but no one knows so why the question???

Answer 8

isnt it true that the universe is expanding at an ever faster rate therefore it would have been traveling much slower when it first started

also the speed of light is confusing, if you are traveling at the speed of light and flash a torch the light from the torch would still travel at the speed of light so would that light be traveling at twice the speed of light to things that where stationary when you turned it on? damn now im confused...

Answer 9

THEORETICALLY, nothing can travel faster than light. however there is no technology available to detect the existence of anything traveling faster than light. so don't etch that in stone just yet. andno one can say the edge of infinite cosmose has slowed down any since then, it is just too far away from us to know anything about it....

Answer 10

Actually, it's better to say that nothing man-made can travel faster than the speed of light, because we don't know everything yet to make that assumption.