On Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 2:19:42 PM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 3:57 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *>> Even if you ignore Dark Energy and postulate that the Hubble constant really is constant, every object a megaparsec away (3.26 million light-years) is moving away from us at about 70 kilometers per second. So if you try to look at objects a sufficiently large number of megaparsec away you will fail to find any because they are moving away from us faster than the speed of light.* >* That was in the past. At present, the universe is expanding at about 70 km/sec.* *Galaxies are receding from the Earth at 70 km/sec for EACH megaparsec distant from Earth they are. The further from Earth they are, the faster they are moving away from us, so if they are far enough away they will be moving faster than the speed of light away from us. * *That's because the initial rate of expansion was HUGE due to inflation, and we're just seeing the velocities increasing as we look back in time. But if you're right, you should be able to prove it mathematically from the geometry. Can you that? AG * *> You're assuming the universe today is infinite,* *NO! I said IF the entire universe is infinite today then it was always infinite, and IF it was finite 10^-35 seconds after the Big Bang then it's still finite today. I also said nobody knows if the entire universe is infinite or finite. * *>* *Hubble's law applies to the past, not to the future,* *What the hell?! * * John* K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> hwt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/21470ddc-8bf1-4867-95ab-3bf39ad9cffen%40googlegroups.com.
