Is the Universe Expanding Faster than The Speed of Light?

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Is the Universe Expanding Faster than The Speed of Light?

At first, this seems like a paradox with a fundamental law of physics somehow getting broken here, but rather counter-intuitively it’s not.

Because the key to this isn’t about things moving through space…it’s about what space itself is doing. And even asking this question “of is the universe expanding faster than the speed of light” is a bit of a moot point, because the expansion technically doesn’t have a traditional “speed” either, it’s like asking am I heavier than I am tall?

So in this video we're going to dive into this cosmic loophole that allows the expansion of the Universe to appear to outrun light itself…

Dr. Becky

astrophysicist

Is the Universe Expanding Faster than The Speed of Light?

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