Timeline for How can the diameter of the universe be so big, if nothing can go faster than light?
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 9:17 | comment | added | Yashas | Initially, the space was just a point which expanded to, say a light year, the expansion continued and it is now 92 billion light years in diameter. If I got your question right, then what we today is a fully stretched extremely small point. Light cannot travel faster than light and this is a fact. However, the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics do not work at the very beginning of the universe. Stretching of the universe is already quantified but involves high level math. | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 2:28 | vote | accept | Jim McMillan | ||
| Aug 12, 2016 at 2:27 | comment | added | Jim McMillan | Ok, that seems bite sized enough for a non physicists to handle and after careful consideration I believe I understand. I do have one question though. It was implied that the first light years have stretched a considerable amount a when compared in distance to light years today. Do we know if light travelled faster than 186,000 miles per second? or if those miles have just stretched in length since early universe? If it is the latter then shouldn't that stretching be quantified and updated like leap seconds? or maybe that's the same thing?.... mind blown... ok marked as answer. Thank you | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 2:09 | vote | accept | Jim McMillan | ||
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| Aug 7, 2016 at 10:38 | history | edited | Yashas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2016 at 7:19 | history | answered | Yashas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |