Comment Re:why did you post this? (Score 1) 235
What's faster than the speed of light?
(Other then the hypothesized expansion of the early universe as current theory stands.)
The current expansion of the universe is faster than the speed of light.
Distances between the out-most galaxies at opposite ends of the universe is growing faster than the speed of light and current models suggest that this process is accelerating.
Some quick (and hopefully not totally bogus!) back of the envelope calculations: the latest value for the Hubble constant is 71 km/sec (with about 5% of accuracy), which means 71 km/sec expansion of the universe, per megaparsec of space. Given that the current size of the universe is about 28,000 psec, this means that the universe is expanding about 2 million kilometers per second. That's moving opposite boundaries away from each other more than 6 times faster than the speed of light. (which is 0.3 million kilometers per second)
That does not mean that any physical matter can move faster than the speed of light, sadly.