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[alxian]

i always thought that man would find a way past the light barrier much as he has done so for the 50 mile an hour barrier and sound barrier etc


once we have become advance enough to do so we will voyage throughout the universe.


at that point the further we go the more of the universe we will be able to chart, meaning that the two most distant points of such a future could not actually see its furthest human settlements


that would mean travelling over 13.7 billion light years.

probably no doable.

but neither was the moon at one point.

i mean if we can send peeps out by 1 billion lightyears and ask them what they saw they are likely going to say much of the same, the barrier like the fog of war moves on and more galaxies become visible.

if man can figure out FTL travel via quantum froth wormhoels or even more exotic string theory methods maybe one day blinking will take longer than getting from here to the furthest human world from here, some 20-50-100 billion light years away?

just because spain can see the new world doen't mean its not there, just because out view of the infinite is limited doesn't mean the universe doesn't go on for trillions of lightyears in all directions.



the question then is the big bang... why does everything seem to be of a uniform distribution and age? could only this region of space be of that same age but other areas of the universe be older? and others even newer? could the visible univers be merely the remnants of a massive gamma ray burst or supernova?