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False horizon?

Sleeping Troll
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Since the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate

(http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2011/press.html a parabolic function)

wouldn't it follow that if we try to look back to the "Big Bang" we would see a false horizon?

 

If you view a parabolic curve with limits of infinity at x=1 (y=x^2) there appears to be a right angle.

 

Is the "Big Bang" actually at x=1? If so, the universe has no beginning and the "Big Bang" is an illusion. If we could travel back 13.7 billion years, we would still perceive a "Big Bang" that occured 13.7 billion years ago!

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