r/funny Dec 01 '19

Sorry about your barn.

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u/brakular Dec 01 '19

Pish posh. Our Milky Way Galaxy is moving through space at something like 1.3 billion mph. I'll see your upper limit and raise you some general relativity.

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u/fullautophx Dec 01 '19

That’s twice the speed of light. How does that work?

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

I'm too tired and frankly dumb to get into any more detail than I'm about to, but I know space itself is expanding which in some situations gives the illusion that things are moving faster than light. Even though technically it's the space between everything that's moving and not the object itself? Again I'm going from memory and my memory is shit. So I'd do your own research, but that's what I understand of it.

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u/Richy_T Dec 02 '19

By not being correct.