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Old 31st December 2018, 09:00 AM   #58
kellyb
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Originally Posted by Roboramma View Post
One of my favourites is that if you look at a spot 13 billion light years away in that direction:
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And look at another spot 13 billion light years away in that direction:
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You will be looking at two points that are (well, were) much closer to each other than they are to you.

point 1 <----------13 billion light years------------- you -------------13 billion light years------------> point 2

Weird right?
In fact, I think those two points are actually only tens of millions of light years apart, but don't quote me on that.
Took me a second to wrap my mind around that, but yeah, that is weird.
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