Galaxies going faster than light ? [v.2]

If even that simple metaphor washes over you, I can't help you.

You have crossed the threshold from not understanding to not wanting to understand.

I vividly recall the time I wasted on river, on the subject of water, some years ago. To this day I do not know whether we are dealing with a troll, or just someone of impenetrable stupidity. But one thing is sure: he will never show any sign of understanding your explanations.
 
How are post # 162 and #163 relevant to the OP?
How do these posts add to the discussion?
It appears few posters just jerk in to create friction.
 
How are post # 162 and #163 relevant to the OP?
How do these posts add to the discussion?
It appears few posters just jerk in to create friction.

Yeah well that's what they do .

To discredit me seems to be the goal , over and over again .

Thanks though : The God : because I'm so use to it that I miss your observation . About them towards me . I'm easy going , though . Their anger towards me is just a reflection how on point I am .

I have zero friends , unfortunately. Maybe this will change . Don't know . Or maybe I do but don't know it . I'm complaining ; it has been many yrs.
 
You could have many friends; you are a pleasant enough fellow.

All you'd need to do is acknowledge that you could learn from them.

Sometimes

But also you learn from me . Sometimes

We all learn ; that's all that matters .

I wish there were less insults and just outright rejection and more Hmmmm...I'll think about that.

We have become so defensive that little in the way of the exploration of an idea is accomplished.

I know for the most part I'm outside the box . But I think this is a healthy attitude to have. Remember most of the time it's not my theory ; I just put it out there .
 
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Explains nothing about galaxies going faster than the speed of light , explains nothing at all .

Best and simplest way I can think of it is - think of a wave, rolling through the ocean. The water itself isn't moving nearly as fast as the wave is propagating, yet a surfer can "ride" that wave. By that, I mean the horizontal displacement of the individual water molecules is FAR LESS than the actual speed of the wave moving, so in essence the surfer is riding not the water itself, but the wave propagation through it.
 
Or try this:
Say that (to simplify things) the fastest a human can run is 30 mph.
If we put that runner on an extended treadmill that's doing 20 mph he's receding from us at 50 mph without exceeding 30 mph running speed.
 
Or try this:
Say that (to simplify things) the fastest a human can run is 30 mph.
If we put that runner on an extended treadmill that's doing 20 mph he's receding from us at 50 mph without exceeding 30 mph running speed.

Get it .

But we are talking about going FASTER than the speed of light . Not just any old speed .
 
Doesn't make a difference.
The rate of recession is greater than c but nothing is moving (in space) faster than c.
Rate of recession is not speed through space (and the latter is what Einstein was talking about).
There is no conflict.
 
River -

Do you understand the difference between an object moving THROUGH space at a speed, and an object moving WITH space at a speed?
 
I know for the most part I'm outside the box . But I think this is a healthy attitude to have. Remember most of the time it's not my theory ; I just put it out there .
Your problem river is you see this "outside the box" thingy, as some sort of badge of honour that you chose to wear proudly, but that in fact now has you simply denying or turning a blind eye to what the evidence points to.
All scientific theories and models were at one time, "outside the box" but continued research, and gathering of data, sees most now accepted.
The great man himself was wrong in believing that the universe/spacetime was static.....Note, what made the man great was his ability to admit it as his greatest blunder when evidence showed a dynamic universe.
You most certainly understand that spacetime expanding at FTL, explains the recessional velocity of galaxies, and you also certainly understand that this does not defy Einsteins basic tenant that "c" is the universal speed limit applying to anything with mass.
That was answered and explained as early as post 2, and further explained many times since. It's just a shame that your inability to accept that you are wrong in your interpretation of the video you saw, blinds you to the facts that everyone is trying to convey to you.
 
The totality of this thread with regards to spacetime expansion at FTL is well known and accepted by mainstream cosmology at this stage.
NASA at no stage would say that galaxies are moving FTL without a proper explanation of what is meant.......Because the fact is they are not and neither is anything moving at or FTL.
Without giving anymore analogies WIKI sums it up pretty nicely.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space
The metric expansion of space is the increase of the distance between two distant parts of the universe with time. It is an intrinsic expansion whereby the scale of space itself changes. This is different from other examples of expansions andexplosions in that, as far as observations can ascertain, it is a property of the entirety of the universe rather than a phenomenon that can be contained and observed from the outside.

Metric expansion is a key feature of Big Bang cosmology, is modeled mathematically with the FLRW metric, and is a generic property of the universe we inhabit. However, the model is valid only on large scales (roughly the scale of galaxy clusters and above). At smaller scales matter has become bound together under the influence of gravitational attraction and such things do not expand at the metric expansion rate as the universe ages. As such, the only galaxies receding from one another as a result of metric expansion are those separated by cosmologically relevant scales larger than the length scales associated with the gravitational collapse that are possible in the age of the universe given the matter density and average expansion rate.
 
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