Blog Post of the Week #5: Post-Thoughts on The Universe

***Okay, this really isn't long or elaborate enough to warrant a blog post of the week, but it seemed to make more sense than saying blog post of the week #4 part 2, so here we are, the fifth featured post.***

So after writing the last post,  I decided to think about a few more things on the universe like: 

Maybe the universe is only a few hundred years old. 

Maybe even more frighteningly, the universe is only as old as you are.

I say this because they say that the universe is thirteen-point-whatever billion years old, yet the universe is over 150 billion lightyears in diameter. How can the universe be that large if light can not have even traveled that far in the time since the universes creation? If you say the universe is expanding like a balloon, after thirteen billion years, light expanding on opposite sides would only get 26 billion years apart and sure it may be an area that is unobservable, but astronomers have found a galaxy 42 billion lightyears away from the Earth. 

How do you explain this? 

Does this mean that time isn't always forward moving in the universe and that we are simply looking into the future to see this galaxy? Therefore, what are we? How do we see into the future? Can we see the end of the universe if we look hard enough?

For the universe being as old as you are, maybe we all live in our own separate universes, created when we were born and linked together by a higher power. When we die, that part or more simply, your own universe is simply shut down. Allowing for you to be gone, but for everyone you know to still exist in the web of connected multiverses. Kind of like a real-life matrix.

I had a more elaborate explanation to the last point, but as I thought about it and tried to write it down my mind erased it. Is that weird or what? (Thanks William Shatner).

Thanks,

Dillon Wheeler