"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
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| Here's a question that's been puzzling me. If the universe is
| expanding,

Is it?




| and the further an object (e.g. a galaxy) is away from us,
| the faster it is moving away from us.

So it would be accelerating base on that idea....



Are there parts of space so far
| away from us that it's expanding away from us *faster* than the speed
| of light?

Faster than the speed of light, relative to what? Us? The source?
The "nothing" between us and the star that is part of of the galaxy
that is red-shifted?

| From what I understand the speed of light limitation doesn't
| apply to the expansion of space itself.

Ah.... from what you understand... I see.
What is it that you *see*, exactly?


Androcles.



| Therefore the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation isn't the cloak
| that surrounds the secrets of the Big Bang, but just the curtain
around
| a part of the universe that is now out of contact with us. An
endlessly
| expanding universe sure, but one that never had a beginning?
|
| Yousuf Khan
|