>look at star millions of light years away>see how it was millions of years ago>maybe it doesn't even exist anymorethis shit makes my head hurt. Could it mean that we and some ayys exist on different timelines? Is looking into the night sky like looking at ghosts?
>>16784594Next time you shine a flashlight into the sky, remember that aliens are seeing it right now even though you're long dead for them.
>>16784594>>16784603It would be 'now' for you but also 'now' for them even though your 'now' and their 'now' could be eons apart. And no, it's not the same as watching a recording of something happening. It's the original event propagating. They are no more watching a recording than someone else standing right next to you.
>>16784594Every human has another timeline because we travel with slightly different speeds through space.
If you look at a galaxy very far away. Let’s pick a distance of 1 billion light years. That galaxy was never there and is now very far away from what you see. The universe is a tricky little bastard.
>>16784594the speed of light limit is all the proof you need that we are in a machine with limited power resources.
if you could travel faster than light and had a powerful enough telescope you could leave Earth, then look back at it and see any historical event that has ever happened.
>>16784669In theory yes.
>>16784666The speed of simulation theory propagation is all the proof you need that we are in a system with limited mind resources.
i always wondered how we tell so many things about a planet or its surrounding system from blurry telescope images
>>16784606The photon bouces off you and is absorbed by the alien's eyeball at exactly the same, single point of time, from the photons pov.Photon sees all. Photon knows all.
