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Old 08-03-2010, 01:05 AM   #111
Mac Howard
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Surfers Paradise, Australia
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Originally Posted by cartman View Post
Pretty cool "scale of the universe" flash presentation

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe.swf

Now what I can't understand about this idea that the universe is 93 billion light years across (the extreme 46.5 billion light years from the centre and big bang point) is this:

If the universe is 14 billion years old and nothing can travel faster than light then how can anything be greater than 14 billion light years away from the point of the big bang - 28 billion light years across? Was/is the universe expanding faster than the speed of light?

There's obviously something wrong with my thinking but I don't know what it is. Anyone enlighten me?

As for your second link, cartman, I couldn't get beyond

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maximally entangling a particle with a quantum memory

And that's only the second line

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