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Originally Posted by davidm
Incidentally, in that Norton piece you linked, did you read this?
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When we look at a distant galaxy 10 million light years away, we are seeing it as it appeared 10 million years ago.
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Or does "I looked it over" mean you didn't actually read it at all?  |
I did, but that part about 10 million light years away is to be expected. Actually, the light might have just arrived from that long ago. But to get an image of an event that is no longer present (such as Columbus discovering America) is quite another story. Back to relativity of simultaneity, real time vision doesn't contradict the observation that what we see is relative to our inertial frame of reference.