more confusion
I really thought I had it, alas confusion has set back in.
I can see how the universe could expand faster than the speed of light. If one side was moving away at .9c and the other side moving away at .9c, the combined expansion would be 1.8c away from each other (.8c faster...
So, in super layman terms...
What was once an centimeter, would now measure a kilometer (if it were possible to observe the universe from the 'outside'). Everything keeps expanding, but since we are part of that expansion, we don't notice it.
Thanks for helping me understand this.
Can someone please explain something too me.
From what I understand our current calculations suggest the universe is between 11 and 20 some billion years old.
Astronomers have measured the cosmos to be roughly 156 billion light years across, or 78 billion light years from the outermost...