Timeline for Maximum size of the observable universe?
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 4:39 | comment | added | benrg | @BenCrowell Quantum mechanically, only finitely many photons will reach us from distant objects, so there will be a last photon. But classically, this answer is correct: the light from distant objects is redshifted into the indefinite future and never completely disappears (like that of objects falling into a black hole, and for more or less the same reason). | |
| Aug 5, 2011 at 1:29 | comment | added | user4552 | "Every bit of the universe we see today is in principle observable in the future." This is incorrect, for the reasons explained by Dragan Huterer. | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 3:43 | history | answered | Lawrence B. Crowell | CC BY-SA 2.5 |