bengrf

I just read both of your links and to be perfectly honest it reads like a propaganda peice for an authoritarian dictatorship. Was this really your intention?

I really hope your still answering questions because this has been bugging me for the past 3 months. If we know the universe is expanding faster because the further away objects are the faster they go away from us, then wouldn't the universe be expanding slower because those objects are travailing at that speed further back in time? For instance it takes 3 billion years for light from a galaxy to reach us so it is travailing at that speed 3billion years ago while the one that is 2 billion years from us is moving at a slower velocity.

Thanks for the in depth answer. My high school brain didn't catch it all on the first read but I would have been even more confused if you omitted anything.

Thanks for the reply. I am reasonably scintificly literate and know about the expansion of the universe however my question lies in the accelerating explansion of the universe. Now when that photon is makeing his marry little way towards Earth the universe expands incresing the wavelenght of the light, now if light is emmited 3 billion light years away 3 billion years of expanding universe take effect on the photon now wouldn't the light naturaly have a greater redshift than one emmited 1 billion light years away. Furthermore, how do we know at what pace this expansion has taken place for instance how do we know that the redshift is takeing place more rapidly and therefore that the universe is expanding faster?