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I can't believe I read all 80 pages today, and the last comment was yesterday and the first was months ago...

I'm feeling very enlightened by all of this. 

Thank you guys for helping me understand how many different things work, even if it wasn't useful for the OP.

Quote from: sandmanMike on March 26, 2013, 01:36:22 PM

I can't believe I read all 80 pages today, and the last comment was yesterday and the first was months ago...

I'm feeling very enlightened by all of this. 

Thank you guys for helping me understand how many different things work, even if it wasn't useful for the OP.

All 80 pages today?!

That's dedication!

This bugs me.

I went along in life being told about planets and stars and all things about space, as we all did and being a young age at the time, I had no reason to doubt it.
 After all, why would a kid doubt a professor in a white overall or a teacher that has been taught to teach you the very same things he/she was taught.

I don't discount everything I've been taught but at the same time I'm becoming extremely sceptical each day from what I have been taught over time and one of them is stars and light years.

As we all know...stars are supposedly calculated in light years for distance as mileage would involve ridiculous maths.
So we are told that a star that is 600 light years away would take us 600 years travelling at the speed of light to reach it and also that we are looking at that star as it was 600 years ago as we see the 600 year old light.

I honestly cannot get my head around it and think it's absolute BS, yet my simple answer could be construed as kid like and discounted by scientists, coupled with ridicule, so here goes.

When we view a star, we are viewing that star as it is "now" not as it was X amount of years ago.

Why do I think this?

Think about going out on a night with a torch and a friend, then telling that friend to walk 100 yards, then turn on his torch to shine at you.

You are going to see the small light of that torch in his hand...not the beam from the torch to your face as the beam would be spread out the further it gets.

A torch spans out like a funnel and it would be like anyone looking into a funnel and seeing the light at the end because that's what takes your focus.

I could be way out in my thinking here and I don't profess to say it's 100% correct but it does seem more logical to me of us seeing stars as they are, not as they were, meaning stars are a hell of a lot closer than we are told.

What do you all think?

Quote from: sandmanMike on March 26, 2013, 04:04:44 PM

It's called a really slow day on Help Desk lol...

Well, at least you know you won't need any sun block, now that you know that two discs of metal smashed together will only go "clang" and not "bang." 

what tech did they have for cgi back then?

I haven't followed all 80 pages of this subject, but just clicked on 80 to get here.

However, somewhere I got lost. I thought this had something to do with stars and light years, or am I wrong ? 

I haven't followed all 80 pages of this subject, but just clicked on 80 to get here.

However, somewhere I got lost. I thought this had something to do with stars and light years, or am I wrong ? 

Sceptimatic likes to believe that our inability to feel a car or train moving when its at its cruising speed does not apply to the Earth. Apparently, while we don't feel the car or train move, that's just because they're moving so slowly! The Earth however moves at a whopping 1000mph so we should definitely be flying off our seats, right?

Oh, and something about an atmosphere within an atmosphere... If we have traffic on the road and one car decides to slow down, in turn slowing down the entire lane, then scepti would describe that as having traffic within traffic.

scepti
I don't know if this makes it any clearer. If the light years were converted into miles which is something in the quintillions of miles.
Or if you could travel at the speed of light it would take you 600 years to get you to a place 600 light years from the earth.
What we really need is a rocket ship that could travel 100 times the speed of light and we could get there in 6 years.   

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111205193158AA1oYVA