Hey, what a great find, I love the show, I listen on my Palm Treo 700p, and it works great. Anyway, I would love to ask this question. This is of course a thought experiment. If I was around since the moment the big bang occurred. And I was propelled with the expansion along with space and time itself. How old would I be? I know my clocks would be ticking much slower, since I am traveling at the speed of light. Would I still be about 13.7 billion years old as the rest of the universe? Or would I be younger from the time dilation?

If you consider the subatomic particles of which you are composed, then you pretty much were around at the Big Bang, and followed the expansion of space thereafter. So you'd be 13.7 billion years old.

Grant Hutchison

Indeed, you would be 13.7 billion years old. Whenever an age of the universe is reported, that age is actually a proper time, that would be recorded by a clock moving along with the expansion of the universe. Nice thing about time dilation is that it always seems to nail somebody else's clock, but never your own, since you are always at rest with respect to your own clock.

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Would there be a way to estimate (or maybe even calculate) the time that has passed on someone's clock who was around when the Big Bang occured but didn't move along with the expansion (if that were possible)?

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That's not the Big Bang I know, that happened everywhere, where expansion is away from all points.

(Oh, and since I find myself in this thread: could the topic originator in the future please use titles more descriptive than "Question"? Be kinder to your readers. Thanks.)

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Thanks for all the answers guys. Yeah, that was my first post, and I am very excited to be here. When I ask a "question" in the future, I will be more descriptive. Is their a limit on how many questions I can ask? I have a "billion" more...Thanks

Ask away. And, welcome to the BAUT Forum.

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