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Old 04-28-2009, 04:43 PM   #20
onetwo_threefour
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So this is the closest thing we have ever seen to the edge of Hawking's light cone. It is pretty close to the edge of the visible universe for us then since we'll never see anything that lies at a distance greater in light years than the age of the universe assuming that the inflationary model is correct and there is matter or energy that moved so far so fast that we'll never see it. Pretty interesting to think that we can observe things that are almost at the natural limits of what we can possibly observe.
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