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Cosmic Queries – JWST’s Primordial Galaxies with Wendy Freedman

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The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than the Speed of Light

Matt: I feel like one day a blunder of mine could lead to maybe a Nobel Prize for medicine. Wendy: How come the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, but galaxy stars and planets are not in a hurry to move away from each other? Matt: The speed of expansion is not only my buggling, but in a way supernatural, it should be perceivable. Dr. Wendy: We don't know anything about parts of the universe beyond where we can see light that has traveled to us since the age of the universe.

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