The Oldest Light in the Universe

"Starlord" wrote in message
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I would NOT relay on what that outfit puts out, as a lot of it is pure
100%
garbage. While the ubv. maybe expanding, it can NOT do it faster than
light
and I haven to get both S&T and Astronomy and all the JPL/Cal-tech
bulletins
and there's NOTHING that is faster then the SOL.

Some scientists are thinking otherwise on the speed of light.
From what I read if we are strictly limited to the speed of light being a
hard limit and a constant, there would be some problems with our present
theories on how the universe expanded so quickly.
One theory I read was that in the early stages of the universe the speed of
light was faster than what we see now. Implying that the speed of light does
not have to be a hard limit.
Like I say very interesting reading what some of the cosmologists and
Physics guys are coming up with.


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"Dana" wrote in message
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"Starlord" wrote in message
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WRONG, the redshift is just the means used to tell how far away they
are.

Correct, but it was this redshift that showed the Scientists that the
Universe was expanding, and the redshifts showed the scientists that the
expansion was going faster than they thought.
Which led them to the fact that the universe is expanding quicker than
the
speed of light.

"Dana" wrote in message
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"Starlord" wrote in message
. ..
I would NOT relay on what that outfit puts out, as a lot of it is pure
100%
garbage. While the ubv. maybe expanding, it can NOT do it faster than
light
and I haven to get both S&T and Astronomy and all the JPL/Cal-tech
bulletins
and there's NOTHING that is faster then the SOL.

Some scientists are thinking otherwise on the speed of light.
From what I read if we are strictly limited to the speed of light being a
hard limit and a constant, there would be some problems with our present
theories on how the universe expanded so quickly.
One theory I read was that in the early stages of the universe the speed
of
light was faster than what we see now. Implying that the speed of light
does
not have to be a hard limit.
Like I say very interesting reading what some of the cosmologists and
Physics guys are coming up with.

Cosmologists have no problem with the speed of light!
In the moments of the Big Bang it was space that was
expanding, and it did so for a brief period (called
inflation) at *many* times the speed of light.

Note that there is no contradiction with Relativity on
this point, either the special or general theories.
General Relativity maintains that nothing can move
*in space* faster than the speed of light -- It says
nothing about how fast distant regions of space itself
may be moving with respect to each other.