[peacegirl]

Originally Posted by LadyShea

No, that is not what is meant. Are you purposefully misunderstanding?

According to relativity, and also causality FYI (so two principles of physics you are dealing with) information of any kind cannot be conveyed between two points instantaneously by any means. According to relativity there is no such thing as real time, at all. According to causality there is no possibility of simultaneity of the cause and the effect. In the case of seeing the cause is the object existing and having properties and the effect is gaining knowledge of the properties and existence of said object that is being seen. It doesn't matter what the information is, it doesn't matter what the two points are (an object being seen and the brain doing the seeing are two points).

I already told you that there is nothing being transmitted, or conveyed, so this really doesn't relate to the theory of relativity. The theory of relativity states that information cannot be obtained faster than the speed of light. You are using this definition very loosely. I agree that if you use this reasoning, you will conclude that real time seeing is impossible because information can't be conveyed instantaneously. But if nothing is being conveyed (only seen; which is instantaneous), then real time seeing is possible. Seeing an object is not receiving information until that information is at the point of being processed by the brain (which is time related). At that point, the brain would be doing the same thing it would do if it was interpreting images from signals, or seeing images in real time. This does not contradict the theory of relativity of simultaneity. If the lightsource (e.g., lightning) is causing a person to see an object or image relative to his position differently than someone seeing that object or image from another position, efferent vision does not negate this phenomenon, and this phenomenon does not negate efferent vision. Sorry.