when i go out at night and see all of the beautiful stars..........?

Question

are the ones more than 6002 light years away a figment of my imagination?

Answer 1

Funny.
No; Satan just put them there to tempt you, just like the dinosaur bones.
Satan also invented carbon dating.
Sly one, isn't he?

Answer 2

Did you choose 6002 as the reverse of 2006? Otherwise I see no particular significance in that distance when it comes to the stars.

It is possible, and even likely, that some of the light you are seeing comes from stars that no longer exist but that just means that you are seeing the star's past - not a figment of your imagination. This is the case with all stars, including our Sun, although in the latter case the time lag is only a few seconds.

If it were possible to sufficiently magnify the speck of light you see you would actually be looking at a picture from a past reality.

This scenario raises an interesting question about a scientific theory that only what is observed exists. Is it not possible for a star to be born and die in the far reaches of space and only afterwards for its light to reach us (or any observer)?

Answer 3

If all the stars in the firmament are figments of our imagination then we ourselves are a part of that imaginative system that conjures up radiant stars for our fancy to behold. The scientific proof says that we are all made from stardust - of elements forged into the furnace of stars lived long time ago. The direct observational proof is that there is nothing between the stars and our naked eye but a layer of thin air. Therefore, if stars are there in our imagination some light years away, then we are here under the same imagined skies and upon the same imagined earth. Perhaps, we imagine ourselves into existence. Therefore, if the radiant stars that grace our nightly heavens with their quiet vigil are a stuff of our imagination then we are too - an imaginative consciousness.

But if the stars are real as they appear when observed and studied through scientific apparatus then we are real too. It is often difficult to detach an observer from the observed – an imagination to another imagination is a mutual proof of their reality. The stars have a beginning and an end. We too have our limited physical lives. We can think, feel, and normally like to abide by the laws of nature. But we can also imagine things that are not congruent to what already exists in our physical world, and then we wonder upon the nature of things around us, including ourselves. This is something that makes me think – what could be really real?

Answer 4

I would not be able to judge 6002 light years away from you but if I could then I would still give you the same answer that ...is everything not our imagination, is the world not of our own making is anything that we think we take for fact not merely perception, we see through a distorted mirror and even when we clean it till the relection is 'perfect' if this even were possible then the mirror would turn out be so multi-faceted that we only glanced at a fragment of the vast possiblities that are.

Answer 5

A light-year is the distance travelled by light in one Julian year.
So you are seeing a light which originated from the star
6002 years ago. In other words you are not seeing the star in real time. You are seeing the star as it was 6002 years ago. So we donot even know if the star exists today.
Considering this you may say that you saw the past(of that star).

Answer 6

ah, but does it matter? even though others might not see the stars from your perspective, it is a unique opportunity to experience a connection with the galaxy -- there's a reason that your mind sees these 6002+ light years away twinklers....let your imagination go wild & find out where it will take you! May the force be with you! lol great question!

Answer 7

if the stars you are looking at, are 6002 light years away, then the light you see from them is 6002 years old......."light speed" is 186'000 miles pre. sec. .....light years is the time it takes the light to travel in a year

Answer 8

I love seeing the stars at night unfortunately I live near a city were stars are hard make out because of the glare from city lights..you must live in the Midwest..you lucky dog

Answer 9

Nope - you can see a lot farther away than that.

Andromeda Galaxy
This faint patch of light is the farthest thing visible to the naked eye, over 2 million light years away.

Answer 10

Sadly,,,but with no intent to offend you,,,Imagination is a FIGMENT.

What you decide is factual,,may be disputed, but very likely IS.

What you choose to believe as TRUTH,,,may not be FACT.

Rev. Steven

Answer 11

funny u can see a star cause the light travel