Guest norm[T12SDSUD] Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Actually scientists have broken the speed of light in the lab already. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/781199.stm http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=000657D8-67D9-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleMX Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 After it started expanding you could observe it from inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pparaska Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 After it started expanding you could observe it from inside. Yes. But then since you are part of the expanding universe, it would not seem to be expanding faster than light. I thnk the difficulty in picturing this is that when you think of the universe expanding, you imagine that observable things like particles, etc. would be moving away from each other. The point that Scott brought up is that the yard stick you'd use to measure the distance between things would be expanding as well, at the rate that the universe was expanding, so your measurement would show no change. Well, I think that's what Scott meant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaleMX Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 You can watch "The Elegant Universe" online at pbs.org http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-TARD Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 Whoa.... I feel another brain anuerism coming on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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