Re: entropy and bio-evo
- From: "g" <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:14:47 -0400 (EDT)
"Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmenegay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> There is another possible way of explaining it. Perhaps you simply
> misunderstood what the cosmologists were saying back in step #3.
>
> See, for example, this:
> http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae38.cfm
>
> ...the furthest distance from which light emitted during the
> Big Bang can reach us [the event horizon] is proportional to
> the time [ct]. Therefore, as time advances, the event horizon
> encloses a larger and larger fraction [as well as absolute volume]
> of the universe. That is, the distance to the event horizon grows
> proportionally faster than the universe itself.
>
> This means that, as time goes on, the event horizon continually
> expands to encompass new points in the universe that had, up to that
> time, been beyond the event horizon. Therefore, there continues to
> be a supply of new points whose light generated in the Big Bang is
> now just able to reach us.
>
> I strongly suspect that the cosmologists you are quoting were giving
> the horizon distance during the era when the light was emitted.
>
Great. Thanks.
Will give it more thought.
I'm not quoting anybody. Have read multiple sources and tried to get a
picture in my own head.
Of course, correction of that picture is the goal.
g
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