Stix wrote:I watched a clip last night after all this mind bending stuff, that explained how the universe is so much bigger than expected, because of its constant expansion since the big bang....yep--get that...
It went on to say that because its expanding at an increasingly higher rate (accelerating) away from us (Earth) that eventually, some of the objects we can
just see now (the most distant objects/matter/galaxies in the observable universe/as seen by Hubble deep space) will soon be so far away that they will just
disappear--so...they'll be so far away & this distance will be ever increasing, that the light wont ever reach us... i get that
-...kinda...-Now because of the expansion, the wavelengths of light coming back to us effectively flatten out to a point of no longer being in the visible spectrum...i get that too..
....just like hearing the music from a car travelling away from you progressively gets lower in pitch & beats per minute progressively get less/(they decellerate at the rate of the car moving away from you)...yep...righto...
BUT...!!!??!?!?!
If nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, & the universe is expanding at a rate lesser than the speed of light, then the light emitted from these objects/matter/galaxies now, will surely continue to reach us...& even if the wavelength is flattened out to flat, it cant just cease to exist-
because matter cannot be created or destroyed, & light is apparently matter--& energy (in this case light radiation) cant just vanish, it can only change its form-or maybe better put, it cant go into a "negative" wavelength & just cease to be...
--it must still be there..!!....sssoooo...???...what gives....??
Tassie...can you throw any light on this problem
...((
...get it...
light on...
ah i think im funny sometimes))