My dumb space thoughts 5
OK, here I am with another of my wildly inaccurate thoughts. Was reading an article about a distant gamma burst that they think happened "soon" after the big bang.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/09/12/space.explosion.reut/index.html
They say it's 13 B LY away. So obviously happened 13 B years ago, And that it happened 1/2 to 1 B years after big bang. And that they estimate the universe at 13.7 B years old.
OK
Here's my problem
If the big bang started off the size of this dot . And it took 13 B years for the light of this gamma pulkse to get here... for the object to be 13 B LY away, it would need that long to to create the distance between here and there before bursting so the light can get to here. Am I confused enough yet? Not to m
