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Re: What is the fastest thing in the Universe?
Theoretical science is a lot like religious mythology. "Well respected theorists"... usually with reams of math to "back it up" (without a shred of observational evidence) will come up with things like "the inflationary model of the birth of cosmos" (without a clue or a care where all observable cosmic material came from *in the first place.*)
According to this one "In the beginning"... something called "space" (no-thing, really) expanded from some geometric point with no volume, no matter, no energy, no-thing at all... way faster than light... with no explanation at all as to the driving force for this expansion of "space" (commonly known as emptiness)... and made this theoretical cosmos Way bigger than it could have grown by any natural causes, like actual cosmic building materials exploding and traveling outward at speeds somewhat below "the fastest speed there is" (ref: "The Universe Song")... lightspeed.
Your question is a good one.
If you accept the inflationary model where space can expand faster than light via whatever unknown force and then cosmic "stuff" starts to magically appear, you may as well forget science and go to church and sing "praise the Lord" who created the cosmos out of nothing (like the above) by sheer force of Divine Will/Intent as "Creator."
BTW no one knows what lies beyond the "cosmic event horizon", as far as we can actually see given the real and actual limit of lightspeed.
I'm an advocate of scientific honesty about the degrees certainty about what knowledge science has found through objective observation.
The "original inflation of space" is near the bottom of the list of what we know from observation and actual verification/evidence in "the real, objective world/cosmos." (String theory with all of its "eleven dimensions" lies at the bottom also along with the above "inflation theory" and the sci-fi of "time travel.")
Epistemology is the study of what we know and how we know it. It is where philosophy and science find common ground. Anyone interested in what we actually know... especially in the context of this thread, would do well to check it out.
Michael
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