From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 01:01:15 MDT
> At 03:29 PM 8/15/02 +0930, Emlyn wrote:
>
> >1 - "As things stand, other galaxies will eventually
> disappear as they zoom
> >away from us ***faster than the speed of light***."
> >
> >How does that work?
>
> Space itself can expand faster than light propagates *through* space.
>
See, this is where I haven't been paying attention to physics. If space
itself can expand, rather than the things in it merely getting further from
each other, how can we perceive that?
Emlyn
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