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Originally Posted by r00t
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So I'm digging deeper and science is literally not making any sense.
All the pieces add up to 78 billion-light-years. The light has not traveled that far, but "the starting point of a photon reaching us today after traveling for 13.7 billion years is now 78 billion light-years away," Cornish said. That would be the radius of the universe, and twice that -- 156 billion light-years -- is the diameter. That's based on a view going 90 percent of the way back in time, so it might be slightly larger.
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Get used to it.
"The image below is both the oldest and youngest picture ever taken. It is the oldest because it has taken the light nearly 14 billion years to reach us. And it is the youngest because it is a snapshot of our newborn universe, long before the first stars and galaxies formed. The bright patterns show clumps of simple matter that will eventually form stars and galaxies.
This is as far as we can see into the universe. It is time, not space, which limits our view. Beyond a certain distance, light hasn't had time to reach us yet. "
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreduc..._Universe.html
Personally I hate all this physics shit. It's highly speculative and usually creates more questions than answers. However, I'm not understanding what you're point is. That the age of the universe and it's size don't reconcile?