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  • These videos are just amazing. Thank you for sharing them.

  • "DARK ENERGY" ??? ARE YOU ALL IDIOTS OUTHERE ??? F*CKING SATANISTS WHO BLA-BLA ALL THE TIME ??? HEY MORONS ... EVERYTHING IS ENERGY !!! STOP WITH THESE "DARK, ASHES, DIRT etc" I EVEN HEARD of "A DARK LIGHT" ??? DON'T YOU SEE, WHAT YOU'RE CAUSING TO YOUNGEST GENERATIONS ? YOU'RE TWISTING THEIR MINDS !!! HEY MONSTERS - STOP THAT INSANITY, OR YOU'LL BRING THE APOCALYPSE !!! ...or maybe that's your real idea, a? F*CKING FREAKS !!! PFU !!! DISGUSTING !!!
  • The Planet is nearly 6,300 years old.

  • Evolution is accelerating. As the universe.

  • the percents of the composition of the universe add up to more than 100%

  • Excellent. Thank you for compiling all these great clips, sounds, and facts about our universe together in one video.

  • Beautiful in proportion, timing, editing, music and apt images placed in an order to tell a story. Perfect ending.

    Thank you for putting things in perspective.

    To all the 'debating' posters: You haven't helped at all.

    Where did I leave my house keys?

  • quran 55.7. And the Firmament has He raised high,nd He has set up the Balance [ofJustice],in this verse Allah explain the balance in universe..

    nd in this the Big bang,21.30.Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens nd the earth were joined together [as one unit of creation], before we clove them asunder? We made from

    water every living thing. Will they not then believe?

    nd also before big bang quran contains 1000 sceintifc verses proved 100%right by sceintist.read nd know who is ur creater

  • @peace3610: Come on, put that religion in the bin, I know you can do it.

  • islam is not a religion it is a complete way of life ... for prove some thing wrong u must have a falsification test....quran so have...it tell....4.82 Do they not consider the Qur'an [with care]? Had it been from other Than

    Allah, they would surely have found therein Much discrepancy

  • “Praise be to Allah, the Lord of All the Worlds.” Holy Quran

  • @nsmsa lol shut up

  • Think how mouch galaxies there are, after them all, is there any end, when does it stop, does it even stop. How did big bang created, what was before that. We here in this world have many question, but can not answer them, who can? Can you, no, we belive in many things like god many gods, or profets, but as I'm muslim and really like science, and love the galaxy. I wan't to know how and why is there many galaxies, is there something they have to hide. Will we know after we die.

  • @JoneiBoy7557 The first step towards enlightenment would be to toss aside your nonsensical religious beliefs.

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  • @JoneiBoy7557 Tell me why I should just "accept" whatever you believe. Tell me ANY other discourse where this practice is allowed where we just automatically and unquestionably "accept" another's belief. If I believed the world was flat, and I said "just accept my belief," should you? Why when it comes to religion, should we just accept someones belief? Do you have any idea what the true nature of Islam is? If you actually research it, and STILL believe it, I'd be shocked.

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  • @JoneiBoy7557

    "LISTEN, I DID NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT YOU SHOULD ACCEPT WHAT OTHERS BELIEVE"

    " just accept what people believe"

    When you get your bipolar disorder under control, then we can talk.

  • @mmeasy123 hahaha, very funny, grow up please.

  • @JoneiBoy7557 Do you not see how you blatantly contradict yourself?

  • @mmeasy123 Honestly, no I don't!

  • @JoneiBoy7557 Well, you deleted your comments like the coward you are, so I'll spell it out for you and everyone else to see. You originally posted, "LISTEN, I DID NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT YOU SHOULD ACCEPT WHAT OTHERS BELIEVE." In your next response you say, " just accept what people believe." Do you now see the contradiction you asshole?

  • is that an error in the math @ 3.45? [mean radius = 6.371 km?] Seems to me it should be 6,371km given the circumference as presented. Or am I the one messed up?

    typo (if it is) not withstanding, Great post! Thanks.

  • @keebearfull Someone did point that out before actually and it is a mistake. I have uploaded a corrected version with the name "Chapter 1: You Are Here", which also irons out one or two other mistakes (although I suspect there may be more) and with smoother editing.

  • Marvelous, but after 5:56 it's getting scary. When did we came with so much people? no wonder we are fighting wars against each other. People fighting over a little piece of land should watch this video and stop fighting everywhere, we are so tiny, we should, like small creatures, fear the big things, not destroy them.

  • @MedianAlcoa you're right!

  • Nobody as stupid as god can make something so beautiful.

  • To all you gangsters that don't understand shit, there is only one thing you need to know. It's bigger than your cock. FO SUURE

  • Thanks for all the good work!

  • One can but marvel at the complexity of the universe. The order we see in nature, from the tiny cell to the way in which galaxies align themselves is one of the greatest evidence of a creator, a God behind it all. As Albert Einstein once said: 'the most incomprehensible thing with the universe is that it is comprehensible'.

    Because if it was all a slump and random processes of natural selection. blow me but there wouldn't be any comprehensibility!

  • @praetoriancohort the human mind posits complexity and order where none exists. your mind looks at the world seeking order out of chaos. complexity of the universe is only how we view it. a prime example is astrology, IE creating images from the random position of stars. this does not suffice as true infallible evidence. humanity's ability to comprehend does not prove god exists. you still lack evidence.

  • @praetoriancohort more over we know that this claim is factually wrong. according to this argument, complex snowflakes must be made by some intelligence, rather than the "God behind it all" of physical and chemical forces. that is, if this is true, then god must assign angels to individually craft each snowflake. there must be a "Jack Frost" who draws those artistic patterns on our windows. rather than this childish storybook view of the world, we know that emergent complexity is all around us!

  • One can but marvel at the complexity of the universe. The order we see in nature, from the tiny cell to the way in which galaxies align themselves is one of the greatest evidence of a creator, a God behind it all. As Albert Einstein once said: 'the most incomprehensible thing with the universe is that it is comprehensible'.

    Because if it was all a slump and random processes of natural selection. blow me but there wouldn't be any comprehensibility!

  • wow, my home is so beautiful

  • Mans intake about the creation of the universe is mind blowing. For he thinks what can be greater than this.

  • Wow. I mean Wow. First time I've ever teared up a bit watching a Youtube video. Heh, that was fantastic. I can't wait to watch your other vids.

  • Your track on this reminds me of The Orb. I swear The Orb did a remix of that track at some point. Great movie though. Definitely subscribed. :D

  • Every so often, facts and figures about the universe send me into perspective highs, where I realize just how unlikely and insignificant everything is and I have to crawl up into the fetal position until I stop being amazed at, say, the very existence of towel racks.

    Epic win, sir.

    Epic. Win.

  • Everything is just so beautiful...

  • Ok, everyone on earth needs to watch all your videos.

  • how anyone can choose a "holy" book over this wonderful reality is beyond me

  • @patrickledford420 A lifetime of behavioral and emotional conditioning is what does it. I just hope people see reality and accept it before it's too late.

  • weigh, not weight

  • Beautiful.

  • Oh wow, that was impressive! Very very good video.

  • Can black holes really be 1.5 billion km wide?

    I thought they were all almost massless but their gravity still being close to infinite, but anyway, that the only thing not massless inside the black holes were the photons.

    It is maybe the event horizon you meant in saying

    "They range from 1.5bn km wide

    To less than 1mm"

    I think I'm wrong here, alas, I'm only a ninth-grader (and my physics teacher is Polish). I hope you don't frown upon me as I ask, as I am really interested in astronomy.

  • @Hanses0 black holes are the most massive objects there are and no they really do get that big, you should look up biggest stars, they are also huge and yes, astronomy is fucking awesome

  • Unfortunately your choice of of music prohibits me from viewing this video: "This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment and UMG. It is no longer available in your country."

  • I'm no expert but it seems like 15 quadrillion km across for our solar system is off.

  • @fsmdidit Well, the radius of the Oort Cloud is estimated at around 50,000 Astronomical Units, which comes to 7,500,000,000,000km, so the diameter would be approx. 15 quadrillion across. Obviously, these measurements may become more refined, and may go up or down as we investigate more.

    But the solar doesn't stop with the orbit of Pluto; it goes out to the Kuiper Belt, the heliopause and beyond to the Oort Cloud.

  • @UppruniTegundanna Im terrible at math so tell me where Im off here. 1st if the diameter of the Oort cloud is 7.5 trillion km then shouldnt the radius be 15 trillion km rather than 15 quadrillion? 2nd a quadrillion is a thousand trillion right? And a light year is about 9.5 trillion km, so 15 quadrillion km would be about 1500 light years right? So our solar system would be thicker than our galaxy. Did you say quadrillion when you meant trillion, or am I off?

  • @fsmdidit Yeah, I think you have a point there. Maybe I was getting drunk on numbers!

  • @UppruniTegundanna Yeah sometimes I get stoned on words. No big deal, overall it was a really good video. I'm subbing.

  • @fsmdidit The radius is half the diameter, not the other way around. So if the cloud has a diameter of 7.5 trillion then the radius would be something like 3.75 trillion KM.

  • @Budzi08 Thanks for the correction, I realized my mistake and corrected myself in the comments

  • @fsmdidit No problem, its good to see people have an interest for the subject. Good luck bro

  • @UppruniTegundanna I typed diameter where I should have typed radius and radius where I should have typed diameter. Terrible at math, lol.

  • @utubesucksss no your just stupid.....have fun rolling around in ignorance.

  • @alagodny28 I don't get the impression that your question is a scientific one so much as a theological one. You assume that science requires the rejection of religion. It might enable it for some, but it in no way requires it. Science doesn't have a theory on "God", for or against. The supernatural is irrelevant to it.

    Rather than talk to me, an atheist, you might want to look up a video called "Atheists, ladders, bushes and boxes". Any questions past that drop me a PM or something if you like.

  • dopeshit

  • thank God

  • Awesome Video Here: Ten Stars**********To It, Always....

    Thanks...

    William...

  • Nice choice of music

  • Amazingingly beautiful video!

  • ah i loved the carl sagan quote. great videos btw!

  • amazing vid, love the way it zooms to earth, for a moment earth seemed all unfamiliar and alien like nicely done,

  • This video was very AMAZING! Thank you for all the creative and geniuses. Keep making everybody inspired!

  • hahaha, "it's 70% dark energy, and 25% dark matter... no one knows what either of those are." oh the human mind

  • Oh yeah - Superpredatorr is as gay as they get. Greek Asshole!

  • Only greek faggots like this video

  • 3:46 wheres the carbon?

  • From an objective view, I have to say that religion is not meant to be proven. That is why it is called faith.

    Anyway. Despite the faults or not or whatever in this video. It shows us how small we are. We should focus our time here on earth with a mutual respect towards etch other. Even if we do not agree if there is a God or not.

    Anyway, beautiful video, nice editing and music.

  • our existence is but a blip ...

  • ye. know i feel like im so much smaller than i was compared to this universe. but now compared to the vastness of space i wonder how it is that something so small can exist when all others are so big. space reaches seemingly into a blivion meanwhile the tallest object on earth has a limit and so what are we? "..a mote of dust.."

  • This video leaves me feeling so insignificant. That I am just one bundle of atoms existing in such a huge, and practically incomprehensibly large 'area.' To think humanity may one very far away day exist on another planet, travel outside the solar system etc etc etc is just...well mind blowing. It is the stuff of dreams that one day might just bring a person like me, so tiny and insignificant in the 'bigger picture.' Ah well back to work tommorow.

  • @nitroman69 We have eyes, brains, and technology to explore it... that makes us pretty significant, no matter how small we may be.

  • @nitroman69 Sagan said we're the Universe's way to understand itself.

  • music is awsome

  • Beautiful video. Needs references at the end.

  • Though it sounds like the facts might be a little off or misleading,

    I very much admire this video in an artistic sense.

    Great compilation of video clips and music.

  • This video is a little misleading because while the rest of the video is factually quite accurate, the beginning depicts brane worlds colliding and that is really scientific hypothesis and very, very far from being tested or even testable. We do stand to possibly mislead a few folks into believing we know this to any degree of certainty.

  • Galaxy's are moving away from eitchother and your refering about 1 point of origin, the universe didnt start in your bathroom sir.

  • @MrHobiecat

    Your interpretation is an accurate interpretation of the situation under special relativity. If you look at the effects of general relativity, I think that would address some of the inconsistencies you have pointed at :)

  • Very nice video! I like the effects!

  • A tiny mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

  • Next time I get a speeding ticket Im going to tell the cop I was driving at 65mph but the highway is expanding at 25mph, THAT is why your radar gun says I was going 90mph, but I really wasnt.

  • Ok, its been mentioned twice, but it cant be right. 13 billion years old, and NOTHING can travel faster than the speed of light, so it cant be more than 26B LY across. Saying that empty space is expanding is NONSENSE WORDS. Expanding relative to what? What is the reference point, where is the grid.

    The only thing that is moving is the matter and energy, if it has expaned out to 93 B LY across in 13B years, the laws of physics are nothing but weasle words.

  • ...Either that or the speed of light is NOT a constant, it has been changing as the univese expands. If we are going to string nonsense words together and say space itself is expanding, I might as well believe the universe was created by Zeus.

  • ok thats alot of questions there, let me try and answer some of them. Space is expanding we know this because just by observing other galaxies we can see their moving away from ours. any object that is moving away appears red and any object that is moving closer appears blue This is known as red shift and blue shift and it occurs because Red light and blue light are at opposite ends of the visible light spectrum. this is known as Red Shift and Blue Shift.

  • in response to your comment about expanding roads thats not possible whilst the universe expands out own size remains fixed. we say that the universe is roughly 13billion light years across because that is all we can see. there are certainly areas of the universe from where light has yet to reach us. Hope this helped.

  • But at the beginning of the video it says the universe is 93 billion light years across. Something does not add up. Saying that the empty space itself is expanding, and the matter is along for the ride, again, is nonsense words.

  • @MrHobiecat The people who come up with these figures are mathematical geniuses that have studied the universe and the complex equations that govern them for decades. What qualifies you to say that their calculations are incorrect?

  • the speed of light is absolute, nothing can travel faster, so its impossibly for the universe to be 93B light years across if it started from one point 13 billion years ago. No matter what your IQ is, you CAN NOT violate the laws of physics with handwaving and semantics.

  • @MrHobiecat hey retard look at the actual theory, time is not a constant in terms of our 365 day year, the closer things were to the bang the "longer" the days were. Don't try to sound intelligent about that which you don't understand!

  • the 'actual theory' says the speed of light is absolute, no matter WHAT reference point you use. More handwaving and semantics, but the result is still nonsense words. The universe can NOT be 93 billion light years across if the big bang happened 13 billion years ago. If it is, then the speed of light is NOT what Einstein said it was.

  • @MrHobiecat but yes the uniververse is not 93b years old.

  • @MrHobiecat

    Yes, MrHobiecat, that is the dilemma, isn't it? How can the universe grow THAT large in such a relatively small period of time? If nothing travels faster than the speed of light, why do black holes accelerate energy beyond that threshold? We are finding that the laws of physics are not at all absolute, just like your limited opinions.

  • the only 'dilemma' is that the statement in the video is wrong. the speed of light has NOT been broken by any black hole observations. Whats more, the furthest observed object in space is 13 billion light years away, so WHO decided the unviverse is 93 billion light years across. The obvious answer is the data in the video is simply WRONG.

  • @MrHobiecat No, the info isn't wrong. You might have realized your mistake by now since someone already pointed you to special relativity (speed of light as compared to what?) but if you're still unclear on how it works the channel Best0fScience has a video which should show up as the first result in a search for "Faster Than The Speed Of Light" which was the old title before he changed it.

    He also has vids on relativity itself if you look to his older ones. That should help I'd hope.

  • true!

  • MrHobiecat, not only are galaxies moving away from each other like my peers are stating, but space itself is expanding. So if you have two points moving away from each other, and space itself is expanding between them, it all works out. Also, you might want to look up universal inflation.

  • beautiful

  • Love the video progression, but the music is hypnotic. Maybe a change up towards the end would make me less inclined to distraction from it.

  • well done...but now I'm sleeeepeeee...

  • This video is beautiful, yet it leaves me sad. There is so much potential for humanity to crawl out of our cradle, earth, and to actually learn to do and become more than we ever have before.

    However, we are all so blinded by petty ambitions, and apparently, progress no longer counts unless it turns up a monetary profit.

    Will we ever make any real meaningful attempts to colonize the solar system or the vast reaches of space? It won't happen in my lifetime.

  • great video, nicely done :)

  • I wonder why I don't believe in any god earthlings imagine that are....hmmm

    Nice vid!

  • anither awsome video... thank you for spending your time doing this. your videos really make me happy

  • This is a wonderful way to see our 'collective selves' in the perspective of the universe. It is a miracle we are here. All the more special is our existence and journey. Watching gave me both a feeling of humble appreciation and infinite joy. Thanks

    Lee Mclaughlin - xart

  • with numbers like that there is a 99.99% chance there is another earth like planet with life on it or life in some other way out there.Earth just can't be the only planet with life .

  • Pluto is still a planet!!!!

    f***K whoever said otherwise (jke)

  • god its just a word, and it means different to all of us. Maybe inside the same religion god has little differences but still. Is a concept to abstract to be transmited as information on words.

    So you transmit only a fracction of what u understand as god.

    Talking about god in my opinion is futile.

  • Perhaps, but it is not the Christian god or any other god invented by humanity. If there is a god, it has nothing to do with any human religions.

  • There's always one person like you commenting on awesome vids like this. It has nothing do with God.

  • My parents created me. God didn't create me so you should accept it.

  • Ok man, what every makes you happy.

  • No. Actually it doesn't make me happy. It's just the truth. The boring, mundane truth. YOUR belief makes YOU happy. Don't get confused.

  • @ Cupit29

    It is the truth, but it's for from boring or mundane. But being reality alone, merits it more awe than any fiction. Being true is the highest level of existence for an idea.

    But beyond that, the universe is more interesting and complex than any fictional idea. We still cant comprehend it all yet.

    But, yes you are right, that is the truth.

  • "God created you so you should accept it"

    you should provide proof for such a claim. not just state something and say "accept it". that's BS.

    we have evidence that god didn't create humans. you should just accept it. all you have to do is put down your buybull for a bit and study some real science. in others words; get an education.

  • "Your so ignorant"

    its actually "you're so ignorant". as in "you are so ignorant".

    so who's ignorant? you know it really makes you look silly when you try to call someone stupid, but you can't even use correct english to do it.

    anywayyyzzzz... no. sorry. you have to PROVE god first... then prove it's your god. you don't prove something doesn't exist. it's like if i asked you to prove leprechauns don't exist. go ahead. prove to me leprechauns don't exist. do it. or i'm right and they do. =]

  • "You know that thing in the back of your mind telling you that your wrong?"

    that thing isn't there. i know your jesus zombie guy is not a god and that your god isn't real. there's no good reason to believe it is.

    humans are apes...

  • @thisguysajerk just a theory i had, if human evolved from apes, where are the half man half apes? and if evolution takes like millions of earth shouldn't apes be gone leaving only humans?

  • @44USELESS44 millions of years*

  • @44USELESS44 Humans did not evolve from apes and NO scientist says that. It's called COMMON ANCESTOR. An animal neither Human nor Ape nor Monkey, but the forerunner to ALL the primates.

  • @44USELESS44 watch?v=OSmTPThWD_c&playnext_f­rom=TL&videos=vEsQgGSITig

  • @DrDDooM thats a prettttttty big branch... from clueless chimps to world dominating humans

  • @thisguysajerk Amen to that. Actually the 'this is fucked up' meter in the back of our minds works perfectly, its a big part of how we became atheists. It takes immense amounts of both intelligence and imagination to understand what we can about this vast, logical physics-driven universe. The general nature of science is an honest and thorough pursuit of answers, and its shown there's more to the universe than "It's magic, we're special, I'm special".

  • It is clear to me that the education of the U.S population is one of the most deficient in the world.

    You are the living and walking example.

  • 3:45 most disgusting mudball in the entire universe. it and everything on it must be incinerated

  • Mean radius of the earth is 6,371 km, not 6.371 km. Oops.  :)

  • Outside of the U.S the comma is reaplced by the period, sir.

  • In the UK, where the video creator is from, decimals are still decimals and commas are still commas. Plus if you look at "circumference" and "surface area," you'll see they are formatted correctly. So to be consistent with the rest of the video, 6,371km is the correct answer. Orbital speed isn't 29,783km/s. It's correctly written as 29.783km/s.

  • Dots are used instead of commas in other places in the world...

  • Yeah, although I did actually make a mistake at some point in there. Too late to do anything about it now though!

  • @UppruniTegundanna You can fix with annotations.

  • @ckndr I've actually redone the video from scratch correcting the mistakes and will probably reupload it sometime soon - I have also ironed out some of the mistakes with my other vids, so I can get them back up online without errors.

  • Yes. If you read my last post you'll see that I understand the whole international comma/decimal thing. The statistic in question is inconsistent with the rest of the video. Otherwise great video, UppruniTegundanna!

  • Was the beginning sequence a nod to string theory and membrane collision creating our universe bubble in the greater 'multiverse?' I took that to be what was going on there.

  • Yes, those were brane collisions. :)

  • Ed, that was truly marvellous .. had my headphones on to enchance the whole expirience.. very Philip Glass like.

    Hope your material becomes available to a wider audience.

    6 stars .. ( you cant see the last one, it's invisible to the naked eye)

  • love it

  • So far I have watched three of you videos and they are awesome!

    The Music=5 Stars

    Everything Else=5 stars

  • This is the Total Perspective Vortex.

    Excellent!

  • " My god it's full of stars"-( David Bowman)

  • A wonderful way to start every day. Thank you.

  • Dizzying...

  • This sure dials in the perspective of us vs the universe as we know it. We will learn more and more as time passes, that is if we survive beyond our own stupidity and don't kill ourselves off. This is VERY well done and congratulations on the talent the makers have and the message it carries.

  • wow this whole outer space thing is cool... but im still super into dinosaurs. remember triceratops? 3 horns!!

  • so, where does Spock live?

  • idk we need a map of the universe to see where the vulcan planet is located.

  • I cannot say enough nice things about this video. It will last and last. There is a lot of talk these days about improving education. Making things like this video is a good place to start. I'm sure I will watch it over and over through the years. My compliments go to the creators. You have done a great thing here. You have a lot of talent. Congradulations.

  • nice vid.....and here comes the 'but'....

    what i don't understand.... in the beginning, it sais "this is the universe i'ts 13.73 bn years old, and 93 bn light years wide" i mean... how can they know that? o.O i thougth it was kinda... endless? (more like not imaginable) so.. how they come to this results? (or you?) and for the oldnes... it's maybe older? xD

    but... good video ;) chill muze

    GrtZ

  • The universe is only endless in the sense that you will never hit a wall or reach the end...but...if you travel for long enough, you will end up where you started. This is because the the universe is curved due to matter.

  • Our understanding of it may have changed since, but I heard a few years back that you could extrapolate the size of the universe by the age and rate of expansion. Again, current understanding might be different.

    The universe is also endless in the sense that, due to the rate of expansion, there's a sphere of space that we won't ever be able to get out of (where the expansion rate is greater than the speed of light). Food for thought!

  • Nice!

  • orb rules

  • Funny moment at 8:04... I mean I knew the recession was hitting the Rep. of Ireland pretty badly, just didn't realise they can no longer afford to turn on the lights!!! ha!

  • [gasp, tears]

  • AWESOME!

  • very well done!

  • Am I missing something? You said "The rest is:" Hydrogen 70.5%, Helium 27.5%, Oxygen 5.9%, Carbon 3%. Obviously, the rest of the rest is negligible but it all adds up to 106.9%. That's either a huge rounding error, the numbers are off, or I'm missing something. Why is "the rest" more than 100%? Just curious.

  • Hey, you're right, that's my mistake. Well spotted! It ought to be .59% Oxygen and .3% Carbon. Darned decimals places!

  • Oh no, too much carbon! We need more tax to help us solve the carbon porblem

  • All it needs now is a little David Attenborough narration ;)

  • 5 Stars! Bravo! Carl would be very proud, indeed!

  • Wonderful. If some people would care more about the science and universe instead of hurting each other, we would live in a better world.

  • i believe its 96 billion ly across but its that size because space expands or for some time expanded faster than the speed of light.... space itself isnt bound to the laws matter is governed

  • Well done.

  • I'm not one who knows anything, but if the universe is 13 billion years old, how could it be more than 26 billion light years across?

  • Yeah, it seems obviously wrong at first, but the universe is not said to be expanding from one particular point, but rather that space is expanding in general. That is why they say that no matter where you are, the universe will seem to be expanding away from you. So if everything is receding away from everything else, you get a result that is higher than 26bn ly across.

    It's hard to wrap your mind around. I still find it goes against my "common sense" - but common sense isn't always right!