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Originally Posted by peacegirl
When Lessans used the term "instant", he didn't mean that the instant the Sun would be turned on we could see it
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Of course he did. You're just making stuff up.
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because it would take a nanosecond (I used this measurement because it's the smallest unit of time; there's nothing mysterious about it)
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A nanosecond is not the smallest unit of time. Where did you get that nonsense from?
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Just as we cannot register how fast light travels when we light a candle,
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As you've been told a million times, measuring devices have absolutely no problem precisely registering time intervals like that.
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the same goes for the Sun because we are not talking about traveling light reaching Earth even though that is occurring.
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You're making absolutely no sense.
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We are talking about efferent vision, which works just like the candle example. Imagine that the Sun and the observer are in an enclosed box. The Sun is on one end and the observer is on the other. The Sun is turned on (the candle is turned on). It takes the light a nanosecond from the Sun (the candle) to reach the observer (or the person on the other side of the box), which cannot be registered by the eye. It doesn't matter how large the box is (whether it's a few feet or a million miles away) as long as the object and the observer are within the box. All this means is that the object is within our field of view.
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You're so confused, it boggles the mind. Why on Earth do we have to put things in a
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Why should it work that way? Why should it make no difference how far apart the objects are?