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by Andres, on March 15 2008:
The age of the Universe became more precise last week:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/science/space/09cosmos.html?ref=science
While our Universe is only 13.73 billion years old it is now 150 billion light years across.
How is that even possible if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light? Our Universe went into a period of Cosmic inflation, when space itself expanded faster than the speed of light.
How can some faraway galaxies appear to be receding away from us faster than the speed of light? Distant galaxies don't "travel" away from us. It is the space itself, between us, that is expanding, and this continues to this day.
Imagine placing objects alongside a stretchable surface. When the surface stretches, the further an object, the faster it moves away from the other. As the space between accelerates its expansion, they reach a point where they move away from each other faster than light can travel between them. It is at this point that light from one object will never reach the other.
This means the speed of light puts a limit on what we can see. Further away, the light from those regions too far from us, will never reach us, since the space in-between is accelerating its expansion so quickly, the celestial bodies at the edge appears to exceed the speed of light. So it's like a horizon exists for the Universe, we can't see past it, and we can't catch up with it by moving towards it either, because we do not know how to move faster than the speed of light. If Intelligence does not figure out how to go past this limit, the edge of the Universe, it seems, will always outpace us.
by Christopher reynolds, on March 27 2008:
Yes,
Joseph Campbell described this shift to a time of "no horizon" that has spiritual and psychological connotations.
It is our work to make those inner connections. I call such work, Magnification, meaning our psychological
and spiritual ideas have to do a lot of growing. This comes as lived experience.
Christopher Reynolds
www.urrealist.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhwcqsnPCgU
by Christopher reynolds, on March 27 2008:
Yes,
Joseph Campbell described this shift to a time of "no horizon" that has spiritual and psychological connotations.
It is our work to make those inner connections. I call such work, Magnification, meaning our psychological
and spiritual ideas have to do a lot of growing. This comes as lived experience.
Christopher Reynolds
www.urrealist.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhwcqsnPCgU
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