[klaatumail] Re: travel faster than light
- From: Joseph Lewinski <joelewinski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:42:03 -0400
THe Earth is 92,955,820 miles from the Sun. Light travels at 186,000
miles/second. Therefore, light from the Sun reaches Earth in 8.329
minutes. Keep in mind, you're not looking at the light from the Big Bang.
THAT light has long since gone past us. We're seeing the light from
billions of stars that are, or least were burning at sometime AFTER the Big
Bang. When talking of billions of light years, a few hundred million light
years, give or take, is relatively insignificant.
Joe L
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Bradley, David <
David_Bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jens,
>
> One has nothing to do with the other.
>
> If EVERYTHING that exists in our universe came out of the Big Bang, then we
> started at the same location as that 14 billion year old light. In order
> for us to reach our position in space before that 14 billion year old light
> did, we would have had to travel faster than the speed of light. They
> estimate the universe is only 14 to 15 billion years old. If the light is
> from 14 billion years ago, as they claim it is, and it's just reaching our
> (telescope's) eyes now, we only had at most a 1 billion year head start on
> it, which means in order for that light to reach where we are currently
> located at the same time we are currently located here, then we'd have had
> to move at 14/15 the speed of light (or faster if the universe is less than
> 15 billion years old) in order to be here now to see the light reach here
> now.
>
> It's got nothing to do with light from our sun (which I believe is 8
> minutes away, not 8 seconds away, but I could be wrong). And light that is
> being created by suns in between the big bang and here isn't what's being an
> issue for me. The specific light is light from 14 billions years ago that
> has taken 14 billion years to reach our point in space where we currently
> are located after travelling between 14 and 15 billion years.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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