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It's possible and it does, Young Skywalker. The universe has been expanding for 14 billion years, which means it's total circumference around the outside is two Pi times that, 87 billion in light years.

It's possible and it does, young Skywalker. The universe has been expanding for 14 billion years, which means it's total circumference around the outside is two Pi times that, 87 billion in light years.

Of course, this is all just the coincidence.

Sure, this doesn't account for dark energy.

No way! I'm just a crazy nobody, therefore the numbers must not add up. I must have made an arithmetic error! Yeah, that's it.

Of course, this is all just a coincidence.

But this isn't real because it doesn't account for dark energy.

No way! I'm just a crazy nobody, therefore the numbers must not add up. I must have made an arithmetic error! One multiplication and two divisions. Yeah, that's it.

But you have to remember that the surface of the balloon, which looks like a spherical shell here, is actually three dimensional universe, not a 2D surface. That's why they call it a hypersphere.

The fraction is .0000376

.0000376 x 1,883,652 Km = 70.4 Km Of new space every second for the Megaparsec.

When you consider the slight uncertainties in the numbers, It's correct to within 0.25%. The exact numbers are here.

But you have to remember that the surface of the balloon, which looks like a spherical shell here, is actually our 3-dimensional universe, not a 2D surface. That's why they call it a hypersphere.

The fraction is .0000376.

.0000376 x 1,883,652 Km = 70.4 Km of new space every second for the Megaparsec.

When you consider the slight uncertainties in the distances, it's correct to within 0.25%. The exact numbers are here.