Recent content by AbsoluteChaos

I think the answer is "I don't know." The observable universe is limited by our position in the universe and our limited understanding. There may be many universes inside this one, outside our dimension/understanding or this one maybe one of many within the description "universe" or all alone...

As a complete amature, I have a question about gravity and spacetime. Gravity is seen as a distortion of spacetime and we have the traditional view of a mass resting on a rubber sheet, distorting the space around it. But most masses are moving in space - usually fast or very fast. Is there a...

bapowell Are you saying that space can expand faster than light, while matter can only travel near the speed of light?

Apololgies in advance for my complete lack of understanding of what are probably a well established facts but I have a few questions which have been buzzing around in my head (a rather empty head at that). Why is the speed of light finite? Why can't it go faster? Is there an accelleration...