John Carruthers wrote:

At what speed is the Universe currently expanding?
I'm just doing this for my OU course, I worked it out to 61.3 km/
s/Mpc.
The accepted value is around 60 but anywhere between 40 and 100 may
be right !!

That is, assuming we are expanding from the point where The Big Bang
occurred
No, everything is zooming away from everything else, there is no "
point of origin" weird.
Also c is still a constant, things do not exceed c, ...ever...!

expansion does

and

(except on Star Trek) :-))


of course.


jc




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