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How fast are we going now?Our universe was born about 13.7 billion years ago in a massive expansion that blew space up like a gigantic balloon. That, in a nutshell, is the Big Bang theory, which virtually all cosmologists and theoretical physicists endorse. The evidence supporting the idea is extensive and convincing. We know, for example, that the universe is still expanding even now, at an ever-accelerating rate. Even if a very slow rate of acceleration, such as the Earth Gravity rate of acceleration, which is 9.6 meters per second per second, even that slow, how fast are we going if we have been accelerating for 13.7 billion years? Get this straight in your head please. On the first second, when the Big Bang started, the rate of acceleration is 9.6 meters for that first second. The second second, now 2 seconds after the start of the Big Bang, there is 9.6 more meters per second added to the first 9.6 meters per second. Now, to help with this, since this is not as simple as it may first appear, I can offer some math: Acceleration Calculator 1 Acceleration Calculator Suffice to say that a consistent rate of acceleration lasting 13.7 billion years will result is things going faster than any human being can imagine when considering how slow we move our bodies on this very fast planet. |
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