Full Definition of INFLAMMATION. 1. : a local response to cellular injury that is marked by capillary dilatation, leukocytic infiltration, redness, heat, and pain and that serves as a mechanism initiating the elimination of noxious agents and of damaged tissue.2.: the act of inflaming: the state of being inflamed.. : a local response to cellular injury that is marked by capillary dilatation, leukocytic infiltration, redness, heat, and pain and that serves as a mechanism initiating the elimination of noxious agents and of damaged tissue. 2. : the act of inflaming: the state of being inflamed.
Depends on what you mean by seeing. The particle horizon is just the furthest. distance light could have traveled to us since the universe began. That is 93 billion. light years in diameter, or 47 billion light years in any direction, but we can't actually. see anything at that distance.
It's how far light can travel in one of our years (that's a Julian year, and not a leap year...) The distance from the Earth to the edge of the visible universe is about 46.5 gigalight-years in any direction; this is the comoving radius of the observable universe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year (RMG's missed a 'light' in his post above. ...