Justin,
The classical view of the Universe was based upon the speed of light being a constant.
They took the furtherest galaxies and tried to red shift their apparent motion to get the speed of expansion. They worked with novas and supernovas as known stellar "end of life markers" that always have the same color at the same intensity (theory being stars always blow up about the same and the blow ups are naturally very similar in color and brightness as "all you got" major star blow ups are always pretty much the same same no matter how far or how long ago the blow up took place. Fainter is further away and the supernova light is always pure white so any red shifting you see is due to the expansion speed of space time at that particular distance.
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Okay, so, the further away from us something is, the faster it's moving away?
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They ran the expansion rates they saw back to a central zero point and called it The Big Bang origin point and have used several methods to say it was slightly under 14 billion years ago.
This is not the original number BTW, that original number was factored upwards now a couple of times according to the current measured increases in the speed of expansion as space time (which is now thought to have expand at various increasing rates during the formation and maturation of the universe).
The "speed of light" in space can also apparently vary some
when space time itself is expanding a bunch very rapidly in that particular area of things.
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Well, so, in some places stuff is moving faster than others, so, difficult to grasp as it is, it's not even constant..
Lovely..
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Then the latest Hubble Deep Field very long looks just plain flat blew their minds away. With Hubble, the main excuse for building the thing was to see back in time to the formation of the Universe, to use the long eye to go look at the earliest stages of energy to matter conversion since they would be within the range of Hubble's Deep Field longest looks.
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And that makes sense to me. I Thought they should be able to find some answers, but it's looking like a ton of questions instead. How fitting!
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Well, they can now see 46 billion light years in all directions --
A sphere of 46 billion light years in all directions ,
Okay, didn't give us the answers that were expected, but Dude!, what a Frikken Accomplishment. Some of the pictures of the stuff out there are stunning.
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a total view area of 92 billion light years (which is a LOT further than they should be able to see)
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How far should they be seeing, if their understanding were correct?
If we can See light that is 92 billion light years away from its origin, then isn't the age of Existence at least that old?
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--- and what they see is more of the same, not any earlier formative stages of matter.
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If we had ever created matter maybe we'd know what the embryonic stages look like. Apparently ripping matter apart doesn't reveal the recipe.
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There are more Galaxies out there than grains of sand on all the Earth's beaches, and that is with what we got for telescopes right now ......
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Yeah, and that's coolernshit.
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And there is a whole lot more of it than there should be --- 46 radial measured billion light years
makes up enough matter that if the Universe was just a matter / gravity situation gravity should have put the brakes on the expansion and it should be slowing to a gradual stop and reversing itself into a Big Crunch, if it was all up to just traditional matter and gravity.
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Apparently our understanding of physics isn't quite up to answering the biggest Why of all.. And that's pretty hard to grasp. Mass in proximity to mass, rather than attracting, continues to accelerate away,, chin scratching Hmm moment there..
And, if I'm understanding right, everything in every direction is accelerating away at increasing speed ..
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All the old major theories began to erode still faster as the latest Deep Field looks told us the edges of what we can see were going FASTER than expected and were actually still accelerating. And look all you want as far out as you can see, but you ain't looking back to the beginning of time like you thought you were going to be doing when you built the thing.They built the Hadron Super Collider to recreate the post Big Bang energy Bose Condensate (when energy coalesced to become matter) and that didn't work out as planned either. They keep finding more and smaller particles and have never achieved even a "little bang" even now after they found what they thought was the fabled Bose Condensate was just another particle with more sub-particles making it up.
So, astronomy and basic particle physics are being totally rewritten as we speak. It is all a LOT more complex than they originally thought.
Not happy, them theoretical science fellers, and the advanced college physics and astronomy text books are all obsolete at this point in time.
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I wonder how many PHDs have sat and stared at their diploma and shook their heads. They studied and mastered some very difficult things, so they could work out some answers, and discovered the unexpected and unexplainable, using what they had been taught.
It's these things that I would be willing to live longer to find out.
Thank you for your response.
You can film and track individual parts of it as it scatters. You can calculate where center was, based on the trajectory of the bits and pieces, even if you can't see it. But apparently that's not how it goes