So, if the farther something is from us that we can see the older it is, does that mean that looking at things an ever increasing distance away is like looking at a timeline of the universe?
I suspect you mean "younger", not older.So, if the farther something is from us that we can see the older it is,
That's what I meant, that the farther away we see something, the older that thing is.I suspect you mean "younger", not older.
Light traveling the vastness of space from almost any distance, even planets, takes time. So, like the thunder, what we experience (see) took time to get here, IOW, we are experiencing something from its past. Sunlight we see came from the Sun about 8 minutes ago, so we can only see the Sun as it was 8 minutes ago. Light from nearby stars takes years to reach us. Andromeda's light is 2.3 million years old. Many quasars take billions of years.
I see, since we see it when it was younger, you mean it's older than it looks. Kinda like me.That's what I meant, that the farther away we see something, the older that thing is.
NiceI see, since we see it when it was younger, you mean it's older than it looks. Kinda like me.![]()
Nah! The light from the object is increasingly younger (-) from the very instant of emission; its space-time frame will aways be younger (-), as compared to now (t=0) and both the distantly non-local -- unobservable -- object (t=0) and the local observer (t=0) (quantumly entangled across a flat of space-time you might say). But always older (+) as compared to the age of the universe (infinity base (t=1 (-1))). The originating 'wild' (-) is always titanically more mass-energetically youthful than the universe's 'lawns' (+) continuously being produced of and from it, which is why there will always be the inexorable reversal toward return to it (the 'wild').I think that means, as distance increases, the light from the object is older as compared to now, but, younger as compared to the age of the universe.
So, if the farther something is from us that we can see the older it is, does that mean that looking at things an ever increasing distance away is like looking at a timeline of the universe?
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