06-21-2013, 01:42 PM
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I said it, so I feel it, dick
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Here
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Re: A revolution in thought
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
If an explosion is bright enough for us to see it, it doesn't mean the light has traveled all the way to Earth.
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I didn't say that if light is bright enough to be seen we can see it. I said if the object is bright enough we can see it.
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We see everything in real time
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Yes, we're seeing light in real time, but this doesn't mean we can see it before it gets to us. Anything with a finite speed that is traveling from one point to another is not going to be seen before it arrives.
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He didn't say we see starlight. He said we see stars. Stars are made up of gases which are mass. That's what we see.
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We can see any kind of explosion if it's within our field of view.
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Seeing light that comes from a flame, a lamp, or a star is not the same thing as seeing the actual light source whether it's from a flame, a lamp, or a star.
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Stars are made up of gases which are mass. That's what we see.
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Seeing light that comes from a flame, a lamp, or a star is not the same thing as seeing the actual light source whether it's from a flame, a lamp, or a star.
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We can detect light but that's not the same thing as seeing a light bulb. We can detect light, but that's not the same thing as seeing the Sun. We can detect light, but that's not the same thing as seeing a flame. Can you at least agree that photons that are emitted from the Sun are not the same thing as the Sun from which they are derived?
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