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echo: barktopus
to: Adam
from: Gary Wiltshire
date: 2006-03-19 20:12:22
subject: Re: Fast than light..

From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:24:15 -0500, Adam  wrote:

> http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/03/16/cosmic.inflation.ap/
>
> "In that trillionth of a second after the big bang, the universe
> expanded from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of
> observable space through a process known as inflation. At the same time,
> the seeds were planted for the formation of stars, galaxies, planets and
> every other object in the universe."
>
>
> Riiiiiight so something must have been traveling faster than light.....
>
> Adam

No, the fabric of the universe ITSELF expanded at that rate.  Nothing can
travel THROUGH the universe faster than c.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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