What is "actual lightning" again?
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
You are trying to prove that we can't be seeing the actual star because it is too many light years away to be seen. But is it? This goes back to the basic question: Are we seeing a past image of a star as the light reaches our eyes, or are we seeing the actual image.
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
What do you mean by "image of a star"? How are you defining "actual image"? This sounds like nonsense so you really need to define your terms.
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The actual star; just like we see an actual rainbow, or an actual cloud, or actual lightning, or an actual beam of light.
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Science says we are seeing/detecting the light only, and not an "image of a star" whatever that even means. Since the light had to travel here, and it travels at a finite speed, it is necessarily aged during the trip so we are detecting light that was emitted in the past.
This is really quite simple, what part are you not understanding?
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Light is traveling at a finite speed, which means that it is subject to space/time, but we don't see light (photons); we see the actual image that is emitting that light. We can detect light from our instruments, and we can detect photons coming from that light source if there is debris in the atmosphere that is reflecting that light, but that is a very different animal than being able to decode that light into an image in the brain. |