[Sephiroth]

The scientists are often telling us that the various space telescope have observed light emanating some “short” time after the so-called “big bang”.

Is there a brainpower on this forum who can explain the paradox that I describe below.

For this discussion, two axioms apply:

1. There was a big bang c. 13.5 billion years ago;
2. The material of the universe has expanded ever since.

Taking one of the observations as an example of my point (no citation provided), we are told that we can observe a galactic event that took place 13 billion years ago (as measured by red-shift of the received light frequency).

But if our portion of the universe hadn’t yet been expanded to, how can we see light from 13 billion years ago unless one of the axioms is wrong?

Also this stuff about “Space-Time”. Is n’t time entirely relative to an observer and thus nothing to do with space?