Question

If the universe is infinite, then how come there are things disappearing from the horizon? I was at a point in this video (TRUE Limits Of Humanity from Kurzgesagt) about true limits of humanity, and the narrator mentioned that (04:12) "...there is a cosmological horizon around us. Everything beyond it, is traveling faster, relative to us, than the speed of light. So everything that passes the horizon is irretrievably out of reach forever and we will never be able to interact with it again." Are they talking about how galaxies passing the horizon are physically absent, or just visually aren't there and we are unable to interact with them?

Answer 1

Answer:

The big rip theory

Explanation:

      I believe what you are referring to is the big rip theory, in which the universe expands faster than the speed of light Kurzgesagt refers to it as a "horizon" but in reality it's a little more complicated than that. Eventually the expansion of the universe will accelerate far beyond the speed of light creating space between molecules until eventually all matter is fleeting and the entire universe is an endlessly vast cosmic void with not but the occasion molecule left from a time when things weren't so lonely.