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Stan Stuchinski
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I understand that these distances are speculative, but I am given to understand that, at the end of inflation, the diameter of the OBSERVABLE Universe was approximately 10 centimeters. However, the diameter of the UN-OBSERVABLE Universe was a good deal larger, with a diameter of approximately 1,513,728,000,000 kilometers (.16 light year).
Until the discovery that the Universal expansion is accelerating, I believe it was assumed that an ever larger portion of the UN-observable Universe would become visible to us (i.e. more and more galaxies that were previously outside our “light cone”).
However, now that we know that the Universe is expanding at an ACCELERATING rate, I believe that this trend has been reversed, and that LESS of the observable Universe will be visible to us until, in the far future, only our own Milky Way galaxy will be visible to us.
Can anyone tell me if my view is accurate?
Thanks in advance for your time,
Stan
Until the discovery that the Universal expansion is accelerating, I believe it was assumed that an ever larger portion of the UN-observable Universe would become visible to us (i.e. more and more galaxies that were previously outside our “light cone”).
However, now that we know that the Universe is expanding at an ACCELERATING rate, I believe that this trend has been reversed, and that LESS of the observable Universe will be visible to us until, in the far future, only our own Milky Way galaxy will be visible to us.
Can anyone tell me if my view is accurate?
Thanks in advance for your time,
Stan