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Old 10-30-2006, 09:37 PM
Kevin J Kevin J is offline
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If the age of the universe is somewhere around 15 billions years, how can it be 78 billion light years large? Time distortion? If so, is the universe much older relative to an object that isn't travelling outward as fast as we are?

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I'm not sure, but I think it's because of how fast everything expanded immediately after the big bang.
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