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12. We can believe it to be 94 billion light years wide
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 09:17 PM
Mar 2022

If we can only see 14 billion light years in any given direction, and if expansion theories exist that allow objects to move faster than light, then obseverable objects can exist 14 billion light years in each direction along a radius from the point of origin. If the center of the universe is 14 billion light years away in the opposite direction from other observed object along that radius, then a measurable distance of 28 billion light years exists and creates a diameter of 56 billion light years for the observable universe.

If two observable objects were perpendicular to the radius from the same point of observation, and they were measured at the maximum of 28 billion light years apart, then they would be on a radius of close to 20 billion light years from the origin, which when doubled and redoubled as before makes the observable universe a minimum of 80 billion light years wide.

I can't imagine how they came up with a ridiculous number like 94!

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