[Steely Tom]

Here's a question for the scientists here. If this light comes from a galaxy far, far, away and it is the light from billions of years ago when our universe was supposedly much smaller than it is now, why does it register at such a great distance? Wouldn't the light register as being a much closer source if it was from a time when that galaxy was closer to us?

Because space itself expanded. Time expanded too. The whole thing's expanding like a bat out of hell. Billions. Trillions. It's like the National Debt.

There. Does that answer your question?

[calex59]

Does that answer your question?

Nope, because the light is still billions of years old and does not represent what is going on NOW and cannot possibly tell us that the Universe is still expanding and it doesn't answer the question about how light from a closer source(the source being billions of years old)should register as being farther away. If the light started out billions of years ago the distance to it's source should measure much closer because at that time it was much closer, unless the speculation as to the size of the Universe at that time is wrong.

Much of the crap about the Universe is speculation.