RE: Thoughts on the scale of the universe?
September 20, 2012 at 6:57 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2012 at 6:59 pm by IATIA.)
Just to put a few things in perspective, if you observe a star that is 100,000 light years away, you are seeing what it looked like 100,000 years ago and where it was, 100,000 years ago.
The assumptions astrophysicists make are based on complex timelines to accommodate this fact. Some say that the expansion was faster than the speed of light with expanding space complimenting the hyperlight speed and keeping the speeds of expansion within the limit of 'c' at the time of the Big Bang. (This fits in with some of my theories on dark matter)
The two main theories are for a flat universe with an edge expanding into ??? and a curved or closed universe with no edge.
In the case of the flat universe, you could never measure it because there will always be light traveling beyond the edge creating a new edge.
In the case of the closed universe, any attempt to measure it would bring you back to point 'A'.
You ?might? be able to measure what it was, but you could only guess what it is.
The assumptions astrophysicists make are based on complex timelines to accommodate this fact. Some say that the expansion was faster than the speed of light with expanding space complimenting the hyperlight speed and keeping the speeds of expansion within the limit of 'c' at the time of the Big Bang. (This fits in with some of my theories on dark matter)
The two main theories are for a flat universe with an edge expanding into ??? and a curved or closed universe with no edge.
In the case of the flat universe, you could never measure it because there will always be light traveling beyond the edge creating a new edge.
In the case of the closed universe, any attempt to measure it would bring you back to point 'A'.
You ?might? be able to measure what it was, but you could only guess what it is.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
