Ok, two rockets leave Earth each going 99% the speed of light, they are being being separated at a rate greater than the speed of light if you measure the rate from one ship to the other. Let's say light leaves one speaceship (this ship is going 99% the speed of light) going back towards Earth...
If the expansion of space is less than the speed of light light can traverse it correct? And if two objects move through space fast enough to combine their speed with the expansion of space to create separation greater than the speed of light, light will eventually make it across.
Are you...
Why can't they communicate with light? Light would eventually reach the other as long neither object moved faster than the speed of light and as long as the expansion of space didn't expand faster than the speed of light, correct?
Ah well, I'm lost again. Maybe it's time for bed.
It thought if two objects are moving away from each other, each with a speed close to the speed of light and the space between them is expanding at a rate close to the speed of light, they would easily be seperating twice as fast as the speed...
Well thanks guys, sorry I couldn't be better with description. But you guys gave me enough information to learn what I wanted after some looking around. You got me in the right direction. I'm just having a hard time accepting or making sense of what I've read.
So, i'll keep trying until I...
chroot,
That my problem, I don't understand the mechanism of how we view space. We look through a telescope and say a given star or system is so many million light years away. I don't understand how we got that. How are we measuring that?
I don't mean how things travel through space... do...
No Nenad, I am even more confused :(
The particles from the sun would still be coming towards us. As it moved away, would the speed of the light particles change?
It seems to me that the only way for us to view something 10 billion light years away from us, and claim that is how it...
heh chroot, I still don't undertand. I do understand what you are trying to say that traveling at the speed of light that the we are traveling as fast as the particles that allow us to see the sun. So all we would be doing is actually looking at the same particles that we saw when we started...
No, sorry I don't understand at all. What if it doesn't move away at the speed of light?
I'm asking if it moved away from us right now, and then 10 billion light years from now we looked at it, we'd say that is what it looked like 10 billion light years ago, I don't understand how we get...
If the space between Earth and the sun started expanding and we moved away. Once it got 10 billion light years away, we would look at it and say that is what the sun looked like 10 billion years ago. How could we say that if we saw it 10 billion years ago?
Sorry to use such an extreme...
I disagree, that trend is over. And while there are still a lot of things scientist don't have figured it out, most are on the right track. Or we don't have the understanding fully of it yet. But still, we know that there is a cause, and reactions and reasons and explanations for everything...
For what it's worth... I believe strongly there is a God.
If you think about it, everything I know of can have a theory, an explanation, a mathematical solution or just plain ole basic observation except for one thing.
Everything I know of that happens, happens because of something. You...