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We see in the past...
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After a lot of thinking, (maybe someone already came to the same conclusion as me but whatever) i came to realize that we see in the past by a verrrry small amount of time. I tought about that while looking at the stars, i tougth, you know, one of those stars might'v died a long time ago but yet we still see the light of that star because light travel at 299,792,458 Metres per second and because the source of the light stops producing light doesnt mean that the it will stop being seen everywhere in the universe at the same time. So, then i started looking at someone standing a bit far from me and tought, if that star might not exist while i'm looking at it, does that mean that person i'm looking at is acctually an image of less than a fraction of a second??? My answer is yes. What allows us to see? light being reflected on an object, if that person is 1 metre away from me then i see that person's light being reflected 0.0000000something second into the past before it reaches my eyes. Sorry if i'm too lazy to make the real calcul :P |
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Re: We see in the past...
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by urwLj6JI3K
on 2006-04-09 12:31:56
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*makes the calculation* answer is -> 3.335640952 E-9 s So you see thing that are in a distance of 1 metre of you with a delay of 0.000000003335640952 s. and yes, I am to bored... It's the same thing with sound, like when a lightling strikes you first see the flash and then you hear the sound. But your right, we are looking at the past... |
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Dont forget that that calcutation is only the time that it takes to reach your eyes, your brain also has to decipher and translate the image which takes up time as well =o. so really nothing is what it seems to be.
Those who think they know everything annoy those who actually do.
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