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| Re: That's Just Splitting Hairs
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Jim on December 21, 2000 18:32:22 UTC |
Everything we "see" is just a perception of light. Sure, we're not literally projected back in time when we look at the Andromeda Galaxy, but the light reaching us does provide information about the conditions of the Andromeda Galaxy 2 million years ago. Therefore, the visual we receive does indicate how it looked in the past. Thus, in a sense, we are seeing the past. If we were magically transported there in an instant, then it would appear different than the visual back on Earth. But that's irrelevant since nothing can travel faster than light.
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