|  Big Bang disproved? -
03-29-2005, 10:24 AM
I see from Simon Singh's recently published book - Big Bang, that the latest estimated age of the Universe (back to the Big Bang) is approx. 13 to 14 billion years. There seems to be a consensus, from looking at the more credible science sites on the internet, that the furthest detected galaxies are over 10 billion light years away from us. Assuming we can look as far in the opposite direction, this means that we can detect at least two galaxies which are 20 billion light years apart. Moreover, they were this distance apart 10 billion years ago (because of the time their light took to reach us), which means that, assuming everything was in the same place at the Big Bang, they only had 4 billion years to get that far apart. I would think that this would be impossible, as one or both of the galaxies would have to travel at several times the speed of light for billions of years for this to happen.
This seems, on the face of it, to be a serious flaw in the Big Bang theory, but maybe I'm I missing some obvious explanation. Can anyone enlighten me?
Battybat |