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Good evening ladies and gents
I'm in the process of wrapping my brain around Special Relativity, and I've come across an interesting application having to do with Cosmological Horizons. Basically, the question goes like this:
"Assume a time T has passed since the Big Bang and that we are receiving light from a galaxy receding from us at velocity v (assume v remains constant since the big bang). What is the earliest time T' that the light could have been emitted if it is arriving at Earth now."
Does anybody know of any resources that goes into greater depths regarding this question? By the way, this example is from "Relativity: An introduction to Space-Time physics" by Steve Adams.
Thanks,
-Alan
I'm in the process of wrapping my brain around Special Relativity, and I've come across an interesting application having to do with Cosmological Horizons. Basically, the question goes like this:
"Assume a time T has passed since the Big Bang and that we are receiving light from a galaxy receding from us at velocity v (assume v remains constant since the big bang). What is the earliest time T' that the light could have been emitted if it is arriving at Earth now."
Does anybody know of any resources that goes into greater depths regarding this question? By the way, this example is from "Relativity: An introduction to Space-Time physics" by Steve Adams.
Thanks,
-Alan