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The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) survey sets the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years. The redshift of the oldest observable light in the CMB indicates a distance of 46.5 billion light years. Given the equivalence of time and distance implied by the speed of light (assumed a constant over all time), this would indicate the furthest observable light is substantially older than the age of the universe itself. How is this possible?
Re: Age of CMB versus age of the unverse
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