NOW THEN..........

[TC]

Sitting here in my quiet little room at 2:30am - looking out the window, it\'s a lovely full moon and a million stars in the sky - got to thinking about a question which I 1st heard a few years ago............

When you look out into the night sky, and you see the stars far away, you\'re seeing them because of the light that has travelled from them to you.

But it takes time for the light to travel here. So what we\'re doing is seeing the stars as they were in the past, in the amount of time it has taken for the light to reach us. The further, and further away the stars are, the further back in time we\'re looking.

Now we\'re seeing a star that, let\'s say, is 6,000 years ago. Imagine somebody on that star looking at us. They would be seeing us as we were 6,000 years ago.

Which of those two is \"now\"?

[fishfinder]

Neither, I think, you need more work to keep your mind occupied

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Tony you haven\'t been on the \" special\" baccy have you mate

[mark]

both

time is relative

[tonyfromalnwick]

It\'s the same as asking \"is now in Alnwick the same as now in Newcastle\", only involving slightly greater distances.

Bobs yer uncle.

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

And Snozzle Durant !!

[mark]

depends wether you\'re in alnwick or newcastle

but there is co-existing matter in both places, but the time that exists between them doesn\'t actually exist if your not there

unless you can travel at greater than the speed of light at which point the matter that is between them would cease to exist also.

and if you were travelling at the speed of light you wouldn\'t exist either, as your mass would be imeeasurable, so you you would be energy rather than matter and thus have no inherant mass, it is also arguable that at that speed and in that state you would also exist in both places at once and in fact in all parts of the universe at the same time

but.....

you wouldn\'t be able to stay in either, as the proportional energy you had become at that speed would require and equally inverse amount of negative energy (anti-matter) to bring you back down to earth, which is of course impossible!

too much white lightning can produce similar effect!

[Mogthemackem]

Haven\'t you got a telly Tony? lol

[jimmy]

he must not have Darren mate,spends too much time star gazing,wonder if he is after patrick mowers old job
The sky at night

[Charlton]

even if you could travel at the speed of light you would still be 6,000 years to late to see the star as it was. You would have to travel back in time. As space light bends you would have to jump a loop, TC suggest you read Stephen Hawkins \"The Universe In A nutshell\" especially if it appears you have no telly.

[mark]

he must not have Darren mate,spends too much time star gazing,wonder if he is after patrick mowers old job
The sky at night

a quantum leap from skt at night to Emmerdale!

patrick moore maybe!

[BriH]

Sitting here in my quiet little room at 2:30am - looking out the window, it\'s a lovely full moon and a million stars in the sky - got to thinking about a question which I 1st heard a few years ago............

If Anyone Can answer your Dilemma TC ,SURERLY it is your good self - you have gone back in time to post this thread if you were sitting looking at the stars at 2.30 - LMAO :P :P :P :P :P :P

[tonyfromalnwick]

If everything was created within a fraction of a billionth of a second with the big bang, then every point in our universe is the same age.

So now is now, wherever you are.

Probably.

[TC]

\"Telly\" ?????...........who needs telly?........lol

At 2:30 thismorning, I was probably just wishing I was 6,000 light years away.........lol

BriH...........Time travel is dead easy on NESA - just go to My Account > Change Your Info > Time Zone Offset and select GMT + 1:00hr. You\'ll find that you\'ve jumped forward 1 hour to be in line with BST....lol


As for Patrick Mower / Moore..........

It\'s frightening what can happen during such \"quantum leaps\"




[Edited on 12/7/2006 by TC]

[BriH]

Txt Me the lotto on Friday then will you Ha Ha - we wish :P :P :P