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kiaaJust 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn't that violate...something?
Well, no. Details under the LINK
- The cardinal rule of relativity is that there's a speed limit to the Universe, the speed of light, that nothing can break.
- And yet, when we look at the most distant of objects, their light has been traveling for no more than 13.8 billion years, but appears much farther away.
- Here's how that doesn't break the speed of light; it only breaks our outdated, intuitive notions of how reality ought to behave.
Well, no. Details under the LINK
- The cardinal rule of relativity is that there's a speed limit to the Universe, the speed of light, that nothing can break.
- And yet, when we look at the most distant of objects, their light has been traveling for no more than 13.8 billion years, but appears much farther away.
- Here's how that doesn't break the speed of light; it only breaks our outdated, intuitive notions of how reality ought to behave.
