i mean, its only logical, the oldest photons we can see are the ones that have traveled from just before the distance at which light can’t close the gap and outrun expansion
The math that says distance = rate x time allows light to not exceed the speed of light but travel more than a light year in a year's time.
Which brings up, why are there older photons? Aren't photons infinite? Or are there photons being "born" all the time in the universe? If so, why was the Big Bang such a one of a kind event?
Again, why are there older photons? Shouldn't all photons and masses been traveling at the same speed after the Big Bang?
whoops 70 kilometers per second per megaparsec of distance between two objects is the rate of expansion, so i guess with that and the speed of light you can figure the rest out! let me know
That's a theory. Not a fact. Prove it. The bumping together would be still happening, so chaos amongst proton colliding would be constant. Or did chaos theory for protons only happen during the Big Bang?
http://www.universetoday.com/29971/most-distant-object-ever-seen/ 600M years after the big bang. http://www.universetoday.com/37409/how-big-is-the-universe/ Universe is 150B light years across https://www.khanacademy.org/science...pansion-topic/v/radius-of-observable-universe They seem to be able to visualize it.
Which one are you talking about? Or are you talking about two different topics? Photons are absorbed constantly. Protons rarely decay, but are expected to decay.
That's photons bumping into each other today. You asked and got a correct answer. If they bump into each other today, why wouldn't they back then when everything was really compact and you had billions x billions of suns' worth of photons in a small area?
The proof is mathematical. Perhaps over your head because you don't understand it? http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980414a.html
