# Where is the universe?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-universe/756836>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 8, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-universe/756836 "2016-06-08T15:36:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-universe/756836/41 "2016-06-14T22:06:39Z")

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> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#):
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> 13.7 billion years ago the singularity appears and begins expanding at the speed of light. Am I right so far?

A knowledgeable Doper will be along shortly, but I believe this may be incorrect. There is hypothesised to have been a period called inflation where the expansion of the universe may have exceeded the speed of light.

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**Author:** ![SmartAlecCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SmartAlecCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAlecCat)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-universe/756836/42 "2016-06-14T23:41:44Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> A knowledgeable Doper will be along shortly, but I believe this may be incorrect. There is hypothesised to have been a period called inflation where the expansion of the universe may have exceeded the speed of light.

I believe the expansion is already faster than the speed of light and is still accelerating.

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-universe/756836/43 "2016-06-14T23:44:17Z")

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> [@SmartAlecCat](#):
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> I believe the expansion is already faster than the speed of light and is still accelerating.

I thought this was the turtles-all-the-waydown / my-karma-ran-over-your-dogma cosmology thread. It’s been a little light on technical detail since around post #5.

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