[RadioAstronomer]

Ping :)

[Sabertooth]

Shoot!

I almost missed this thread.

[Aric2000]

Thanks for the ping, sounds strange, but makes some sort of sense to scientists I suppose.

Infinity is best thought about in a nice warm bed, with the blanket pulled over your head....

[VadeRetro]

So, if we're going to "boldly go where no man has gone before," we'd better go pretty fast?

[HeadOn]

Honest question: How does this relate to the apparent ages of stars, then? If light from 10 billion light years away has the added component of this "faster than light expansion", doesn't that skew the age to younger than 10 billion years?

[r9etb]

Thanks for the ping.

I'm reminded of the fellow who at the beginning of the last century claimed that all of the fundamental discoveries of science had been made and that the rest would be technical improvements and cataloguing the results.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the heads up!!!

IMHO, until we arrive at a better determination of space topology it is too early to attribute the observation to speed faster than light:

A Small Spherical Universe after all?

Cosmic crystallography looks at the 3-dimensional observed distribution of high redshift sources (e.g. galaxy clusters, quasars) in order to discover repeating patterns in their distribution, much like the repeating patterns of atoms observed in crystals. They showed that "pair separation histograms" are in most cases able to detect a multi- connected topology of space, in the form of spikes clearly standing out above the noise distribution as expected in the simply-connected case. The researchers have particularly studied small universe models, which explain the billions of visible galaxies are repeating images of a smaller number of actual galaxies.

[blam]

The Great Attractor

[EBUCK]

Thanks for the ping. (why did you ping me? I'm not a scientist or anyhting like that)

Very interesting nonetheless. What is the energy source that is fueling the acceleration? Cosmic winds? And if we are to beleive Einstein wouldn't that energy source fail before light speed velocity is reached?

EBUCK