[ExI] Observable Universe contains ten times more galaxies than previously thought

[Ben]

Anders <anders at aleph.se> Observed:
 > Yes, this news is based on a very odd use of the present tense.
 > Astronomers may be fine with considering the "present" as the surface 
of  our past light cone, but most of us prefer to consider the
 > unreachable volumes with the same cosmological time as us as being "now".

Ah, but doesn't that contradict Relativity? I thought one consequence of 
that was that there is no such thing as 'simultaneity', over large 
enough scales. Surely anyone who wants to think about cosmology needs to 
get used to that idea?

Ben Zaiboc