Hugh Ross and Lliving on Mars with a Super Giant Sun
Re: Hugh Ross and Lliving on Mars with a Super Giant Sun
Doubting Thomas, Some Schmo said the "observable universe." There is no reasonable doubt that the universe has continued to expand since the light from the farthest reaches of the universe that we can see began its journey to us 13.72 billion years ago, but where it has expanded to during those intervening billions of years cannot be part of the "observable universe", because the light from there has not yet had sufficient time to reach us.
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Re: Hugh Ross and Lliving on Mars with a Super Giant Sun
DoubtingThomas wrote:If the universe is seven trillion light years across, then a god would probably exist somewhere.
This location has been suggested as a planetoid-sized space station in the Kolobian star system of the Virgo Cluster.
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Re: Hugh Ross and Lliving on Mars with a Super Giant Sun
Gunnar wrote:Doubting Thomas, Some Schmo said the "observable universe." There is no reasonable doubt that the universe has continued to expand since the light from the farthest reaches of the universe that we can see began its journey to us 13.72 billion years ago, but where it has expanded to during those intervening billions of years cannot be part of the "observable universe", because the light from there has not yet had sufficient time to reach us.
And much of the light will never reach the Earth because the Universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. An editor of Scientific American wrote, "Current estimates place the radius of the observable universe as just more than 45 billion light-years, yielding a diameter slightly in excess of 90 billion light-years. The reason this value is larger than 27.6 billion is because of the universe's expansion over the course of its 13.8-billion-year existence" Just Google: Radius of the observable Universe.
Now the size of the entire universe is unknown, it may be infinite.
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Re: Hugh Ross and Lliving on Mars with a Super Giant Sun
Gunnar wrote:Doubting Thomas, Some Schmo said the "observable universe." There is no reasonable doubt that the universe has continued to expand since the light from the farthest reaches of the universe that we can see began its journey to us 13.72 billion years ago, but where it has expanded to during those intervening billions of years cannot be part of the "observable universe", because the light from there has not yet had sufficient time to reach us.
Hank explains why the observable universe is bigger.
https://youtu.be/1OGhGZbCku0?t=2m
Re: Hugh Ross and Lliving on Mars with a Super Giant Sun
DoubtingThomas wrote:Gunnar wrote:Doubting Thomas, Some Schmo said the "observable universe." There is no reasonable doubt that the universe has continued to expand since the light from the farthest reaches of the universe that we can see began its journey to us 13.72 billion years ago, but where it has expanded to during those intervening billions of years cannot be part of the "observable universe", because the light from there has not yet had sufficient time to reach us.
Hank explains why the observable universe is bigger.
https://youtu.be/1OGhGZbCku0?t=2m
I acknowledge Hank's explanation. Perhaps a more precise way of putting it is that 13.72 billion light years away is the limit of the currently observed universe, as it was when the light from the farthest reaches we can see began its journey to us, rather than the absolute, theoretical limit of what we will ever be able to observe and measure. Some might find this a bit picky and pedantic, though.
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Re: Hugh Ross and Lliving on Mars with a Super Giant Sun
moksha wrote:DoubtingThomas wrote:If the universe is seven trillion light years across, then a god would probably exist somewhere.
This location has been suggested as a planetoid-sized space station in the Kolobian star system of the Virgo Cluster.
That's no moon, it's a space station.
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Re: Hugh Ross and Lliving on Mars with a Super Giant Sun
DoubtingThomas wrote:Gunnar wrote:Doubting Thomas, Some Schmo said the "observable universe." There is no reasonable doubt that the universe has continued to expand since the light from the farthest reaches of the universe that we can see began its journey to us 13.72 billion years ago, but where it has expanded to during those intervening billions of years cannot be part of the "observable universe", because the light from there has not yet had sufficient time to reach us.
Hank explains why the observable universe is bigger.
https://youtu.be/1OGhGZbCku0?t=2m
Thanks, DT. That was very interesting to learn.
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