"Charles" wrote in message
...
| On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:41:00 GMT, "Androcles" Androcles@ MyPlace.org
| wrote:
|
|
| "Charles" wrote in message
| .. .
| | On 24 Aug 2005 17:55:15 -0700, "Yousuf Khan"
| | wrote:
| |
| | Here's a question that's been puzzling me. If the universe is
| | expanding, and the further an object (e.g. a galaxy) is away from
us,
| | the faster it is moving away from us. Are there parts of space so
far
| | away from us that it's expanding away from us *faster* than the
speed
| | of light? From what I understand the speed of light limitation
| doesn't
| | apply to the expansion of space itself.
| |
| | Therefore the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation isn't the
cloak
| | that surrounds the secrets of the Big Bang, but just the curtain
| around
| | a part of the universe that is now out of contact with us. An
| endlessly
| | expanding universe sure, but one that never had a beginning?
| |
| | Yousuf Khan
| |
| |
| | If we never know, does it matter?
|
| To whom?
|
| Androcles.
|
|
| us

I don't think Yousuf Khan is part of us, or he wouldn't be asking that
question.
Androcles