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But you can't make a leap from this to "we would see Columbus discovering America" because the image or pattern of that event is still travelling out there somewhere
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Lessans is the only person, apparently, to ever to have made the strawman claim about seeing Columbus. Nobody here, and no scientific literature, mentions any such prediction or makes that claim. So, we aren't making any leaps to that. |
It was a hypothetical example LadyShea.
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However, the only way to see that event would be, as I previously stated, to have a powerful telescope 520 light years away pointed in the right direction at the right moment to intersect those photons from that event.
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Regardless of how powerful a telescope would have to be, if all the conditions were right, scientists believe that we would be able to see a past event such as Columbus discovering America, which is what Lessans disputed. |
As it is not at all empirically testable he couldn't have offered a more useless hypothetical.
Why do you insist on using something so stupid and useless and unable to support your point? |
He was using this as an example, so people could understand what he was talking about. |
And you continue to use it, even though it is not useful? |
It is very useful because it gives a clear understanding of what Lessans is trying to convey. It might not be useful to you, but you are not everyone.