• DOI:10.1071/AS03040
Corpus ID: 13068122

Expanding Confusion: Common Misconceptions of Cosmological Horizons and the Superluminal Expansion of the Universe

@article{Davis2004ExpandingCC,
  title={Expanding Confusion: Common Misconceptions of Cosmological Horizons and the Superluminal Expansion of the Universe},
  author={T. Davis and C. Lineweaver},
  journal={Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia},
  year={2004},
  volume={21},
  pages={97 - 109}
}

• T. Davis, C. Lineweaver
• Published 2004
• Physics
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

Abstract We use standard general relativity to illustrate and clarify several common misconceptions about the expansion of the universe. To show the abundance of these misconceptions we cite numerous misleading, or easily misinterpreted, statements in the literature. In the context of the new standard ΛCDM cosmology we point out confusions regarding the particle horizon, the event horizon, the ‘observable universe’ and the Hubble sphere (distance at which recession velocity = c). We show that… Expand

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