Chip C. Woltz
Sep 22, 2021

Thank you for another wonderful article. My brain has difficulty with one concept that perhaps you can write about to provide an explanation. We always hear that the further away we look, the further back in time we look. That, of course, makes perfect sense. However, I have difficulty understanding this: If everything started at the big bang, and now when we look back in time say 10 billion years in any direction, we see billions of galaxies at massive distances. So how did these galaxies get so far distant from the starting point (big bang) so quickly? Logic would say that if we could truly look back 10 billion years, we would see a much smaller universe. How did the oldest and most distant objects get so far away from the big bang starting point?

Sign up to discover human stories that deepen your understanding of the world.

Free

Distraction-free reading. No ads.

Organize your knowledge with lists and highlights.

Tell your story. Find your audience.

Membership

Read member-only stories

Support writers you read most

Earn money for your writing

Listen to audio narrations

Read offline with the Medium app

No responses yet

Write a response