Re:On the Nature of Time
by adastra22 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:17AM
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They will never reach us because the rate of expansion is accelerating.
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That article doesn't back up your claim.
Yes it does, look at the caption of Fig. 1:
"Photons we receive that were emitted by objects beyond the Hubble sphere were initially receding from us (outward sloping lightcone at t <∼ 5 Gyr). Only when they passed from the region of superluminal recession vrec > c (gray crosshatching) to the region of subluminal recession (no shading) can the photons approach us".
I can’t reply to your last reply. I agree, in fact I said those regions can be still causally connected to us, not that they are.
Those photons aren't superluminal, the are in our past light cone, they were headed out way before the emitter was beyond the horizon.
It gets complicated because the concept of 'now' is a local property and because those objects aren't moving away ftl, space is expanding.