These scientists sound so foolish when they say the big bang occurred 13 billion years ago. The furthest lights are 13+ billion light years away, so they assume the galaxy is 13+ billion years old. To get that, you have to assume:
1. that galaxies travels at or near the speed of light. They don’t, so it may have taken them long to get to where they are, or were when the light we see started.
2 You have assume we are at the center of the universe, since we can see galaxies at that distance in all directions.
How can we assume light from the furthest seen galaxy to our west hasn’t reached the furthest seen galaxy to the east? That would make the universe at least 26+ billion light years wide.
“The furthest lights are 13+ billion light years away, so they assume the galaxy is 13+ billion years old. To get that, you have to assume:
1. that galaxies travels at or near the speed of light. They don’t, so it may have taken them long to get to where they are, or were when the light we see started.
2 You have assume we are at the center of the universe, since we can see galaxies at that distance in all directions.”
Your ignorance of astronomy and the age of the universe is astounding.
The Big Bang THEORY. How did everything we know at present begin? Scientist THINK it began 13.8 billion years ago, and some THINK it started with a BIG BANG. I haven’t seen any of those ”scientists “ expound on where the matter, or the energy came from, andwhat “triggered” the BANG. There is a lot more unknown than known.
“How can we assume light from the furthest seen galaxy to our west hasn’t reached the furthest seen galaxy to the east? That would make the universe at least 26+ billion light years wide.”
You might start your education by researching Hubble Constant and CMB.
“That would make the universe at least 26+ billion light years wide.”
93 BILLION LIGHT YEARS
I recently read that within a few seconds of the Big Bang the universe was already 20 or 30 light years across. And in that hyper-expansion, it carried all the objects embedded in it along for the ride. Those ojects were not moving through space faster than light. They were moving with space. And Einstein has nothing to say about how fast space can expand.
That changes everything in your calculations, and mine. Apparently (I don't claim to understand it), because of this hyper-expansion of space, the universe itself may be much larger than 26 billion light years across.
Hundreds of billions? Maybe. Infinitely large? I've even read that, though I don't see how that's possible!
“1. that galaxies travels at or near the speed of light. They don’t, so it may have taken them long to get to where they are, or were when the light we see started.”
The most distant galaxies are traveling away from us faster than the speed of light.
“2 You have assume we are at the center of the universe, since we can see galaxies at that distance in all directions.”
Exactly opposite. It is assumed that the universe has no “center”.