13.4 Billion Years

[Ray Gin]

This is the length of time it has taken light to travel from the most distant star we know of to Earth.

Light travels at 671 million miles per hour. Or 5,880,000,000,000 miles per year.

 

I think I've just given myself a brain bubble.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13539914

 

 

Edit-just realised the thread title should read "13.14 billion years"

[jambovambo]

This is the length of time it has taken light to travel from the most distant star we know of to Earth.

Light travels at 671 million miles per hour. Or 5,880,000,000,000 miles per year.

 

I think I've just given myself a brain bubble.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13539914

 

 

Edit-just realised the thread title should read "13.14 billion years"

 

C'mon mate - how are we supposed to take this seriously when you get your facts out by 260 million years ?

 

Jeesh.

[2NaFish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY

 

The song may need revised under new discoveries.

[Debtor]

This is the length of time it has taken light to travel from the most distant star we know of to Earth.

Light travels at 671 million miles per hour. Or 5,880,000,000,000 miles per year.

 

I think I've just given myself a brain bubble.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13539914

 

 

Edit-just realised the thread title should read "13.14 billion years"

 

 

 

 

I've waited longer than that in the dentists.....

[hmfc_steve]

<br />This is the length of time it has taken light to travel from the most distant star we know of to Earth.<br />Light travels at 671 million miles per hour. Or 5,880,000,000,000 miles per year.<br /><br />I think I've just given myself a brain bubble.<br /><br /><a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13539914' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-13539914</a><br /><br /><br />Edit-just realised the thread title should read "13.14 billion years"<br />

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being pedantic, I know but ... you're 5410848000 miles out !

 

c = 186282 miles/sec ( ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light )

=> 186282*60*60*24*365 = 5874589152000 miles/year (non leap year)

5880000000000 - 5874589152000 = 5410848000 error

as I said, maybe pedantic ... but 5.41 billion miles is quite a lot

[Kenbo]

Thought this thread was gonna be about the last time Hubz won the Big Cup!

[jambos are go!]

This is the length of time it has taken light to travel from the most distant star we know of to Earth.

Light travels at 671 million miles per hour. Or 5,880,000,000,000 miles per year.

 

I think I've just given myself a brain bubble.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13539914

 

 

Edit-just realised the thread title should read "13.14 billion years"

Might take that long for folk on here to see the light on how great a player Steve Fulton was.

[Pistol1874]

Might take that long for folk on here to see the light on how great a player Steve Fulton was.

It'll take 4 or 5 times that long to persuade me that John Millar wasn't a complete and total huddy.

[maroonlegions]

Who knows what the future discoveries will be in quantum physics,astro physics and quantum mechanics, that what we currently know today or is accepted as even remotely possible sometime in the future can suddenly change due to know and unexpected and existing discoveries is no science fiction;The two articles below are suggestive that more new breakthroughs are on the horizon;ML;

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H.E. Puthoff, Ph.D. - Physics Essays, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 156-158, 1996;

quote;

Summary:

"Alcubierre's recent "warp drive" analysis within the context of general relativistic dynamics, indicates the naivete of the assumption of impossibility of faster-than-light-speed travel. We show here that Alcubierre's result is a particular case of a broad, general approach that might loosely be called "metric engineering," the details of which provide yet further support for the concept that reduced-time interstellar travel, either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not, as naive consideration might hold, fundamentally constrained by physical principles".

link; http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1087.htm

 

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The second article below is of significance in its nature of some of the new breakthroughs that are or have manifested so far, matter of time before more profound discoveries manifest themselves to those scientists who push the boundaries of what is currently accepted or known;ML;

 

 

VLT/Our Laws Of Physics COULD be Wrong??

**Breaking** VLT May Have Proven That Our Laws Of Physics Are Wrong - The Universe Is Not Equal!

 

quotes;

 

"the VLT (Very Large Telescope) in Chile has found that may prove our science based knowledge of laws and physics in the universe is completely and utterly incorrect and the so called experts in these matters may have to issue apologies for trying to ridicule the people who disagreed with them"

 

"Defying Einstein's equivalence principle, which states that the laws of physics are the same everywhere, researchers have found new evidence that supports the idea that we live in an area of the universe that is "just right" for our existence".

 

Taking data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile Webb has observed that alpha varies in space rather than time.

 

The VLT data suggests that, elsewhere in the universe, the value of alpha is very slightly bigger than on Earth;

 

Laws of physics are not the same everywhere;

 

The study will be published in Physical Review Letters.(ANI)

link; http://sify.com/news/laws-of-physics-are-not-the-same-everywhere-news-international-kjjquecfcbi.html'>http://sify.com/news/laws-of-physics-are-not-the-same-everywhere-news-international-kjjquecfcbi.html

 

link;

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/chancellery/mediacentre/media-centre/news/2010/09/physics-laws-vary-throughout-the-universe

 

Link what ALPHA or "The fine structure constant" actually is from the above quote;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant

 

other links and sources;

 

http://www.eso.org/public/

 

http://sify.com/news/laws-of-physics-are-not-the-same-everywhere-news-international-kjjquecfcbi.html

 

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3720/scientists-propose-a-variable-law-physics

 

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Here is some more information which i feel is relevant;ML;

 

This discovery and corresponding preliminary paper is under "peer review" just now; peer review link here;

http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3907

[Smack]

This is the length of time it has taken light to travel from the most distant star we know of to Earth.

Light travels at 671 million miles per hour. Or 5,880,000,000,000 miles per year.

 

I think I've just given myself a brain bubble.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13539914

 

 

Edit-just realised the thread title should read "13.14 billion years"

 

Ach, I thought about thinking about this but could only be bothered coming up with this.

 

The universe expands at faster than the speed of light, but we only just saw that most distant star the now. But if it is moving faster than the speed of light away from us surely we shouldn't be able to capture a sharp(ish) image of it. Meh.

[Gizmo]

Ach, I thought about thinking about this but could only be bothered coming up with this.

 

The universe expands at faster than the speed of light, but we only just saw that most distant star the now. But if it is moving faster than the speed of light away from us surely we shouldn't be able to capture a sharp(ish) image of it. Meh.

 

Expansion of the Universe does see some Galaxies move away from us faster than the speed of light. However, two things to bear in mind. Firstly, this speed is relative between the two points (in some ways like two trains moving at 100 mph directly away from each other - the relative speed is doubled). Secondly the light from the distant Galaxy was emitted several billion years ago, when the two Galaxies were much closer together (ie before expansion drove them further apart).

 

So the light that reaches us has not had quite as long a journey as it first appears, nor are we - relative to the light - moving away from it at faster than the speed of light. It will catch up provided the two galaxies are not further than 47 billion miles apart if I am remembering this correctly.