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RowKiwi t1_ixxvnft wrote

You can never reach it. It's expanding away from us at the speed of light. Or speed of light PLUS expansion of space itself from inflating universe.

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croninsiglos t1_ixxw7fb wrote

If moving at the speed of light about 46.5 billion years.

Make note that it is reachable even though the universe is expanding because you’re not trying to reach a specific point in space, you’re just trying to reach the boundary at which is still theoretically observable from Earth.

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RowKiwi t1_ixy1epx wrote

Replying to Hoppedelic (#702,788)

No, more like the airport is expanding and getting bigger like in some freaky scifi film. You'll never be able to get to the end of the hallway, as you walk along it, it expands in all ways.

Our universe is inflationary, space itself is expanding.

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NotAHamsterAtAll t1_ixy6zay wrote

You can never reach it, because when you get there, your observable universe has changed.

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SimpleIcy4843 t1_ixy8gmu wrote

There is no consistent speed of light, so the question is mute. If you could transport yourself there immediately, yes of course. In this case the answer would be immediately. LOL. Just word vomit really as it will never happen if you think everything or anything goes by math and physics that we have today.

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croninsiglos t1_ixyf23s wrote

Replying to 7sv3n7 (#703,198)

It won’t matter where you are exactly, just that in principle, you could still be detectable from Earth before being red shifted into oblivion.

You’ll come up short of what’s there now and for you, your observable universe moves with you so we’re only referring to the observable universe with respect to Earth.

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