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Old 04-28-2009, 01:28 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by ken0042 View Post
Here's what I don't get.

So apparently the universe is about 14 billion years old. It all started with a big bang, and everything (including our solar system) is moving outwards.

If this happened 13 billion years ago, how did we manage to get 13 billion light years aways from it in 630 million years? Does that mean our galaxy is moving or once moved at 20 times the speed of light?
You've got it backwards, this event happened when the universe was 630 million years old, and it's taken 13 billion years for the light to reach us (and it's taken 13 billion years for us to get as far away from it as we are now).
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