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> Hi there Jack,
> At 0.9c, any wavelength of light would be red-shifted by a factor
> of 4.4. Thus the most sensitive colour (yellow-green) at 5.6*10^-7 m
> emitted from this object moving away from us, appears to have a
> wavelength of 2.4*10^-6 m which is in the infrared part of the
> spectrum. Your eye would not see it.
> However other instrumentation could. There are object moving away
> from use faster than 0.9c, however they are beyond the particle
> horizon. The particles horizon is caused by the finite age of the
> universe. Light has had only 15 or so billion years to move about
> but the universe is far far larger than 15 billion years...Ets
> beyond the particles horizon? Completely possible, how they could
> never have reached us.
This seems to imply that our universe may be much larger then
previously thought.
js
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