woodlark14 t1_j1iczf1 wrote
Reply to comment by ZincMan 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
Apologies, relativity is quite hard to explain especially without diagrams. The answer to your other questions is that it is reality that is stretching, the distance between two galaxies becomes larger rather than one of the two galaxies moving into a new space. So it's not limited by the speed of light.
As for your questions about the fastest two things can move away from each other, that's actually a more complicated question than you realise. The issue here is that the maximum speed anything can be observed to be moving at is the speed of light. If you took two objects moving away from you at 0.75c (0.75 times the speed of light) then from the perspective of one of those objects the other wouldn't be moving at 1.5c. Instead it would be moving at 0.96c, and you would notice that clocks on the objects no longer match yours.
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