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> "Furthermore, your reference to relativity is also incorrect. The expansion of the Universe is not caused by objects moving away from each other"

I never said that and in fact I explained that the issue here is the metric of the universe expanding, not the particles moving away from each other.

> "is a difference between the size of the observable Universe now and the size when the light was emitted"

Nope, I also never said that.

Seriously just go read what I actually wrote instead of writing whatever goes in your mind with no regard for what is actually being discussed.




I didn't quote you or claim you said anything. I made some assumptions about why you made certain statements like the fact that you think the Universe being ~90 billion light years in diameter violates relativity (it doesn't and this is the currently accepted estimate for its size).

You could just clarify your statements/reasoning to try and progress the discussion instead of getting overly defensive.


> "you made certain statements like the fact that you think the Universe being ~90 billion light years in diameter violates relativity"

I was the one explaining to the OP of the thread that the universe is 90E9 ly in diameter (and also, just to clarify for the future so that it doesn't get mixed up yet again, that this is just an approach based on what we know about the history of the universe), it is therefore ridiculous that I also said that it violates relativity. So, sorry if I'm "overly defensive" about you mixing everything up and me having to use my time to answer you so that you don't twist everything I said on the thread.




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