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BigCommieMachine t1_j1gvjyf wrote

Reply to comment by Shadowkiller00 in Did you know it will still take 46 billion years to cross the universe at the speed of light? 65 mph = 4.8 * 10^17 years! by NotAndroid545

My understanding is It isn’t so much that it is expanding faster than the speed of light, but rather that the speed of light changes as the universe expands.

For 99% of the universe, we mostly understand things. On the 1% fringes, we pretty much have no idea and literally probably can’t have any understanding of what the fuck is going on.

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Shadowkiller00 t1_j1h6fz6 wrote

Nope. I've never heard anything about the speed of light changing. If it did, it would cause all sorts of havoc with the science.

The universe is expanding. No two nearby points are expanding faster than the speed of light, but when you look at two distant points, the combined expansion been them is overall faster than the speed of light.

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