Thread: Where is Voyager 2

Originally Posted by spudfan

Many years ago. Ginger Baker was on drums.

Wow! Legends, both of you!

Hawkwind were further out there than the subject of this thread.

There was a strange smell in the air through out the concert, and I don't mean armpits

Originally Posted by spudfan

The "expanding" universe thing always gets me. What is it expanding into? And if it expanding there has to be a universe there to expand into. If the universe does have a finite size, what's over the boundary where it stops expanding?

Since the expansion is faster the farther you get, there is a boundary we’re the expansion is faster than light. Anything beyond that, we can never see as light can’t reach us.

There is no way to know if there is an extent to to this.

I didn't know that Red90

is there an hypothesis on that.....I understood it was slowing down , would cease expanding and start contracting.

Originally Posted by Red90

Since the expansion is faster the farther you get, there is a boundary we’re the expansion is faster than light. Anything beyond that, we can never see as light can’t reach us.

There is no way to know if there is an extent to to this.

See my post #12!

There is also the possible solution that space-time is curved, so that there really is no end, in the sense that a Klein bottle or a Möbius strip has only one surface, only in four dimensions.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

See my post #12!

There is also the possible solution that space-time is curved, so that there really is no end, in the sense that a Klein bottle or a Möbius strip has only one surface, only in four dimensions.

Your post is talking about distance and the total possible time is takes the light to reach us. That is not what I'm talking about. There is a expansion rate and the rate increases with distance. At a certain distance, the expansion rate is faster than the speed of light. If an object is moving away from us faster than light, then it is impossible for light to ever reach use, regardless of time and there is no way for us to see that it exists.

The real answer is that we don't understand any of it well enough to give an explanation.

Originally Posted by Tins

Hawkwind were further out there than the subject of this thread.

I love Hawkwind. Warrior on the edge of time, my favourite.