
Listener Questions: the expanding observable Universe, what it's like to be a photon and the age of the Universe
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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General Relativity and the Age of the Universe
General relativity tells us that there is no absolute frame of reference by which you can measure time. On the other hand, we also say the universe is 13 point eight billion years old. How can we talk about the universe as having an age like one single number if everybody's clocks are different? We dug into this in a whole episode o about a foot running really, really fast near the speed of light.
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