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Re:The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controvers... by tyfon on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @11:43AM (#41236544)
The measurement for expansion is linear with distance, so two spots one Mpc from another moves away front each other at 67.4 km/s while two spots two Mpcs from each other moves at 134.8km/s. This means the expansion is accelerating and some parts of the now visible universe will eventually move away from us faster than the speed of light resulting in them disappearing from our view.

The distances, time and speeds are indeed very hard to comprehend from our usual references :)

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Re:The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controvers... by gangorgasm on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @11:53AM (#41236632)
It's crazy that some parts of the universe will actually for all purposes vanish

Thanks for taking time to break it all down

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Re:The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controvers... by daedrdev on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @12:07PM (#41236764)
At some point there will only be the galaxies in our local group visible, it's interesting to imagine a future civilization only having such a limited universe to view.
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Re:The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controvers... by ryandrake on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @12:40PM (#41237040)
Doesn't this mean that on a long enough time frame, an observer anywhere in the universe won't be able to see anything because everything else in the universe is too far away to be visible?
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Re:The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controvers... by shagie on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @01:09PM (#41237295)
Simply - yes. Furthermore, civilizations that arise in that era of the universe will likely have a different cosmology than what we are able to understand today. If you could only see the galaxy that you are in, you wouldn't be able to see galaxies that were forming shortly after the Big Bang, or be able to use supernovas in other galaxies to measure the scale of the universe.

Kurzgesagt did a video on that - TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross https://youtu.be/uzkD5SeuwzM

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Re:The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controvers... by gangorgasm on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:40PM (#41239591)
>> civilizations that arise in that era of the universe will likely have a different cosmology than what we are able to understand today.

That is just mind-boggling

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