Big Bang - Earth got where she is FASTER than the speed of light?

Question

I saw a news article a while back claiming that in order for the Big Bang theory to be plausible then we'd need to accept that the stars and plants traveled faster than the speed of light --- which according to Einstein is impossible- No?. Hoping you can help me find similar article / web site. Thank you.

Answer 1

G'day Giggles

When the Big Bang went off there were no stars, no planets, no space, no time and no matter. At some point in the process these condensed like mist on a mirror. After some time had passed since the first ka-blooie the space in which the process was happening is thought to have expanded very rapidly for a quite short period. This idea of very rapid expansion is called a theory of "inflation". There are a few different theories of inflation. The reason there are a few different theories of inflation is that there is not yet enough known or otherwise understood about the whole process to eliminate some of them.

If the period of inflation was very short, the expansion would have to have been faster than the speed of light. If it was a bit slower, it would not have had to do so. In either case it seems that inflation lasted less than a second.

It was not for some time after the absolute start that atoms began to form, before that it was too hot. Nearly all the atoms were hydrogen with a little helium and quite a while afterwards, like millions of years, they began to contract together by gravity to form the first stars. Many of these stars were very big and only lasted a short while, like several million years. (The bigger a star is, the shorter time it exists). The ferocious nuclear reactions inside the stars cooked the hydrogen atoms together to form heavier elements like carbon, and when these huge stars blew up, they also produced all the very heavy elements up to uranium.

This sort of thing went on for several generations of stars until things in the Universe had cooled down and got a bit quieter. By the time our Sun started to form the Universe was already about 10 thousand million years old. It was not for some time after the start of the formation of our Sun that Earth formed, and that seems to have been close to 4,500 million years ago. So our Sun and Earth are about a third the age of the Universe and had plenty of time to "get" here.

Look up the "first three minutes" and "theory of inflation".

Answer 2

The big bang created the empty space in which we exist.

The empty space expanded along with all that exists within it, like the surface of an expanding sphere.

Think about how just the surface of a sphere would behave... As the expanding sphere grows, the surface grows. The sphere started at a spec, so small that the center of the surface was everywhere on that infintesimal sphere.

Now the sphere begins to expand, and the surface expands along with it. The center of the surface is still everywhere on the surface, as they were all one point. Like the suface of the Earth, you can point in any direction and say that if you travel 40,000 km you will be back to where you are.

All the different points did not need to move to get there, there have always been where they are. It is the space between them that has grown, they have not moved away.

Answer 3

Stargazer is closest to the correct answer -- under the Inflationary Theory, for a brief moment the early universe expanded at a wildly accelerated pace (then slowed down). In that moment, space itself expanded so fast that its parts separated much much faster than the speed of light.

This is not a violation of relativity however, because the speed of light limit pertains to objects traveling THROUGH the medium of spacetime -- not to spacetime ITSELF expanding.

Answer 4

To make one element sparkling, relativity would not exclude the opportunity of issues traveling swifter than mild. it incredibly is an relatively uncomplicated false impression. Relativity basically says issues that are slower than c won't be able to strengthen as much as c simply by fact it would require infinite capability. this would not advise issues that trip swifter than c do no longer exist. you may evaluate c to be the optimal speed at which education can propagate. issues that carry no education can trip swifter than c. Take a concept test the place you shine a laser pen at a a great way away vast floor. Swing your arm around the sky and the factor of the laser will trip around the exterior at a speed which would be > c. additionally seem into Tachyons, theoretical debris with v > c. yet another exciting element is that in case you place v > c into Einstein's equations, debris with an "imaginary" or "complicated selection" mass get up.

Answer 5

During the inflationary epoch, spacetime expanded much faster than the speed of light. The speed of light speed limit did not apply to the universe's expansion.

Answer 6

No according to Einstein nothing can go faster than light.

But then again he could have been wrong

Answer 7

Hehehe. Check the paper it's being published in. Things such as the National Inquirer, the Watchtower, and pretty much anything by Al ('I invented the Internet') Gore don't count.

NASA has a couple of good sites and, if you type 'cosmology' or 'cosmological evolution' into a search engine, you'll have all manner of sites to check out.


Doug

Answer 8

the earth is a she now?