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Originally posted by Jedispara
the futher out you look in space, the further back in time, you go. . . . . . . .
any one confused? |
Yes, I
AM confused. When you say "the further out you look in space, the further back in time you go" , what do you mean? I realise that the Hubble telescope, for instance, can "look back in time", as it were, but really what is happening is that the distance from our planet in space to the location in space of a galaxy hundreds of billions of light years away is so vast, that the light leaving that galaxy hundreds of billions of years ago is only now reaching our solar system. In fact, if you were to (somehow) instantaniously transport yourself to that galaxy
NOW, the galaxy you were "looking at" would ba A LOT different from the one you were to visit. The image of this galaxy is a relic of hundreds of billions of years, and is nothing like what it is today.
In other words, when you "look out" really far into space, you are
NOT looking back in time.