Those photons left that star thousands of years ago. And they happened to hit your eyes. What are the odds of any individual photon to travel thousands of light years and be seen by your eyes?
2007-03-20 09:04:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I have thought something similar on occasions. Perhaps I'm cracking up too.
I also think the same thing about being hit by a snowflake.
2007-03-20 09:08:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always think that I'm looking at different times in history. That I'm seeing light that left the star thousands of years ago, some that left hundreds of years. I wonder if some of the stars are still there. I wonder some other being on the other end of the star is looking at the same star at the same time.
2007-03-20 16:15:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try this one: Since looking at a distant star is like looking back in time (we see the star as it was thousands of years ago), then, with a powerful enough telescope, you will see the Big Bang (or at least a moment afterward) in any direction you look. We are surrounded by the Big Bang!
2007-03-20 16:10:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about that many of the stars we see have long ago gone supernova and burned out,
Also your big bang theory make no sense all matter started in the same position, and when it exploded the light would be traveling much faster than the pieces that later formed the earth was. So unless it continued after our planet was thrown from it the light would be ahead of us. Our planet was not a spectator for all this
2007-03-20 16:11:50 · answer #4 · answered by drummerboy128 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
no...i dont think about that
2007-03-20 16:23:25 · answer #5 · answered by xooxcable 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋