Makes me wonder...if there were a large mirror 71.5 light years away could we, in principle, with a powerful enough telescope, witness, say, the Gettysburg Address?
Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Lloyd Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies Nick, Things that are further away are older (GR). It's just that the light coming from them has taken so long to get here. Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:09 AM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies > > Dumb question for you cosmologists to chew over: > > How can they be so far away and yet so young? Or, to put it > even dumber, > are there parts of the Universe that are so far away that > they havent happened yet? > > I guess this is a question about scales of distance vis a vis > scales of time. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark > University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Friam mailing list > > Friam@redfish.com > > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 63, Issue 3 > > ************************************ > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
