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Originally Posted by island911
I've always gotten a kick out of how time and space moved thru... wait, what did space move into faster than the speed of light? And did this for how long?  |
Space was not moving INTO anything. The anything ITSELF was what was expanding. It wasn't a case of an existing region, and the Universe was just taking up a larger section of it. There was no region, all of "region" was bundled up into the thing that was expanding. So, therefore, there is nothing "outside" of space, there was no pre-existing "thing" that space moved into, and no need for a prime mover.
wink back at you.
As for faster than light, things cannot move faster than light though spacetime. Spacetime ITSELF has no such restrictions. The only problem with spacetime expansion is that information is lost when two sections of spacetime expand away faster than the speed of light...there was no communication across the Universe when Inflation happened. This was part of the decoupling, and why we cannot talk about what is beyond the Visible edge to the Universe. There's stuff out there, but any information has been lost between it and us, since spacetime stretched faster than light between it and us.