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Old 14-March-2007, 07:27 AM
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I'm not the most educated on this subject, but from what I understand, the edge of the universe is expanding essentially at the speed of light.
Maybe that's a way to think about the smaller visible Universe, that part we can see and that can affect us. Wrap your mind around a more common expectation of the entirety: there is no edge, no boundary, yet space is expanding.

You might enjoy the Cosmology Primer and FAQ.

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It's like the Big Bang is still an ongoing process, just billions of light years away from here.
And where the big bang happened is right here, where the tip of your nose is, and mine, and all other points. Everything is the result, space and energy and matter, so it happened, and continues, everywhere.

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Kind of weird actually...
Way weird. And weirder.
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