My guess: stars, including the Sun, are constantly producing and emitting new photons. This happens as a result of fusion and other processes.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 9:21 AM Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > In aj NYTimes article: > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/science/astronomy-webb-telescope.html > ..there is the usual discussion on "seeing back to the first several > millennia". > > But, and be kind, why haven't these photons already sped past us? I > suppose it is because the exanssion is uniformly everywhere, we just kept > ahead of them? That seems unlikely given the expansion is slower than light. > > -- Owen > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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