Re: Hear the sound of the Big Bang

Well, you are dealing with a rough description that is intended for the
general public, never a good source for obtaining accurate info. However,
"inflation" is the word you are looking for. In this case, it is not matter
moving faster than the speed of light (which as you point out -- is not
possible). Instead, we have the expansion of space itself, which can expand
at a rate which gives results that look like matter moved faster than light.

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"Habshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The confusing bit is about it being 18m light years across in
> just 760,000 years when nothing is supposed to expand faster than the
> speed of light .
> Further if it was 18m light years in less than 1m years ,
> maybe it got to 18b light years across in just 1b years and so the
> Universe is less than 1b years old and the earth only 6000 years .
>
>
> independent.co.uk
> excerpt
>
> Hear the sound of Big Bang on the internet
> By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor
> 30 October 2003
>
>
> The Big Bang wasn't a big bang: it was "rather like a large jet plane
> flying 100ft above your house in the middle of the night", according
> to a physicist who has recreated the noise of the universe's first
> moments.
>
> John Cramer, of the University of Washington in Seattle, was prompted
> to do the research by an 11-year-old who wanted to know what the Big
> Bang sounded like 13 billion years ago.
>
> The sounds, which can be heard on Professor's Cramer's website,
> www.npl. washington.edu/AV/Big BangSound_2.wav, had to be extracted
> from the "imprint" they left, in the form of micro-variations in the
> temperature of outer space. They cover the first 760,000 years of the
> universe's existence, when it was only 18 million light years across.
>
> At the Big Bang, vast sound waves rippled through the indescribably
> hot matter that comprised the universe. The waves squeezed and
> stretched the matter, heating the compressed
>
>