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Trailblzn
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- Im a novice and I love reading all the great info here but I have a question. We think we know the age of the universe because thats as far as we can "see." Is it possible with inflation that the universe is actually bigger than we can detect and we are limiting the size based on our limited observational abilities?
As inflation happens, effectively, faster than the speed of light (between any given two points) and we can only see 14 billion years back, is it possible the data we need, to judge the age of the universe, is actually beyond our detection abilities. Could the age of the universe be greater because what we are seeing is just the limitations placed on our detecting abilities by space time? Could the "rest" of the universe have expanded beyond our ability to detect it, and the data never get to us because space time, between us and it, is expanding so rapidly that the radio waves, gama rays, light etc is actually getting farther away even though it is coming at us?