Recent content by richardg1987

Thank you for the replies everyone :)

Yes but this still implies that there is a starting point for the Big Bang, which is my initial point. I think I understand the concept of what is being said here, though it is just the concept that the Big Bang did not have a central starting point that eludes me! Ohh my sleep will be disrupted...

As I understand it, gravity cannot accelerate you faster than the speed of light. You can use the force of gravity to accelerate, as shown with quite a few spacecraft throughout history, but whether it is possible to 'reach' the speed of light using this method, I'm not sure.

Thank you for your patience. That swimming pool metaphor really helps! However, Stephen hawking himself said that if you converge everything in the cosmos it returns to one central point in space. Which makes sense, for instance, if you take a nuclear bomb exploding, the explosion comes from...

Thank you for the reply phinds. I'm not an expert so please forgive my stupidity, but I am still finding it difficult to contemplate. I can understand that the distance between Earth and a Star on the edge of the Galaxy are receding away at 3 times the speed of light and that is measured in...

Hello, My question is regarding the speed of the Big Bang explosion. As I understand it, within the first 10 minutes of the Big Bang the universe had expanded hundreds of light years (this of course being faster than the Speed of Light). Bringing me to my question, if nothing can travel...