Re: Guinness World Records: scientific illiteracy?

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> The 2005 edition ("Special 50th Anniversary Edition) of Guinness World
> Records, contrasting "fifty years of change", gives information on the
> category "Remotest known body" (in space) for 2005 and 1955 on page 8.
> The entry for 1955 states in part: "There is reason to believe that
> even remoter nebulae exist but, since it is possible that they are
> receding faster than the speed of light (670,455,000 mph /
> 1,078,992,730 km/h), they would be beyond man's 'observable horizon'."
>
> What theory is this based upon, if any, and how is the apparent
> inconsistency (with relativity's requirement that massive objects
> travel below the speed of light as measured by all observers)
> explained?
>
> Mark Adkins
> msadkins04@xxxxxxxxx
>

General Relativity does not place a constraint on how
fast regions of space may be separating. The velocity
of objects *through* space is limited by c.


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