There’s a really interesting article about this on space.com

The really interesting thing is that special relativity (which is what says nothing can move faster than light) is about local spacetime, because it requires a local frame of reference. General relativity governs non-local references, and it’s indifferent to the speed of light.

> The notion of the absolute speed limit comes from special relativity, but who ever said that special relativity should apply to things on the other side of the universe? That's the domain of a more general theory. A theory like…general relativity.

It's true that in special relativity, nothing can move faster than light. But special relativity is a local law of physics. Or in other words, it's a law of local physics. That means that you will never, ever watch a rocket ship blast by your face faster than the speed of light. Local motion, local laws.

But a galaxy on the far side of the universe? That's the domain of general relativity, and general relativity says: who cares! That galaxy can have any speed it wants, as long as it stays way far away, and not up next to your face.

It goes deeper than this. Concepts like a well-defined "velocity" make sense only in local regions of space. You can only measure something's velocity and actually call it a "velocity" when it's nearby and when the rules of special relativity apply. Stuff super-duper far away, like the galaxies we're talking about it? If it's not close, it doesn't count as a “velocity” in the way that special relativity cares about.

Special relativity doesn't care about the speed — superluminal or otherwise — of a distant galaxy. And neither should you.

If I think about it too much i start to dislike it. But there it is (probably significantly oversimplified for laypeople).

I guess one of the best ways would be watching ships sail across/approach from the horizon.

If we were on the inside of a sphere, they should seem to go up into the sky, since we are on the outside, they seem to sink below the horizon.

Watching in person should also eliminate any claims of camera trickery.

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Thinkin this is a bot and not a 13 year old pubescent youth.

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speed limit is on the light propagating thru space. space can expand at any speed, speed of light has nothing to do with how fast space can expand.

Perhaps they are expecting to grow into the stratosphere? Don't take away those hopes and dreams.

You can use the old 'balloon' analogy.

Take a balloon and mark a bunch of dots on the outside of the balloon. Then blow it up.

As you blow it up, the dots expand away from each other, but they're not actually moving, are they? It's the fabric of the balloon stretching.

Likewise, the fabric of space is expanding and stretching. Dark matter is what keeps galaxies connected to each other through this expanding, but the galaxies are spreading apart from each other.

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I had a friend who was 5' 8" at grad, 2 years later he was 6'3"

t1: x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x 

t2: x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  x

Each x is only one space further apart and has only "moved" a small bit compared to the distance of the first and the last. It took me a while to wrap my head around it as well, but it's space itself that is expanding, very slowly... but everywhere.

Eventually the local area will grow by that rate. Or so the theory goes. At some point it will rip atoms apart.

But ya matter isn't faster than light. The expansion can exceed that but not matter. Is a big distinction and doesn't break casualty.

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maybe it was night when he looked up? ^(/s)

But I'm saying that doesn't exist in reality whatsoever.

If you have mass (or even light itself does this) in this universe, then you will effect the time dilation of other mass objects and they will effect you. These effects permeate all of the universe.

Sure, you can imagine such a place. But so what? It wouldn't apart of this universe, because by definition it can't be.

If you're just using this as an imagination technique to describe what you'd see the universe do if you experience no time, then ok. But I don't think referring to relativity is necessary in that instance. I mean you could just instead say "what would the universe look like if I experienced no time?"

I got a growth spurt around that. Grew like 3 inches. However my scoliosis also worsened at the same time so i actually did not get taller.

The comments here are crazy wholesome. Much love.

Would’ve been better to say, “OP wants to embiggen himself to take up more space.” Rest is gold.

Lucky mf, I’ve been 5’6” since 13 and I’m 25 now

i assume op wants to be an astronaut

“Look up. Do you see more earth?”

Sadly I'm not sure any social services help with massive delusion.

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