The craziest thing about this?
We are looking at something in real time that actually occurred 1,000 years ago. nostr:note1qrdpgkvyrnkvsyf8vg5gt6rmuy8fveuvkpln4d2779h0py97328shr9w3h
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Events reverberating through time
Yep - one could say it “was” spewing out powerful winds…
Simultaneity is a local phenomenon that can't be applied to distant objects. It happened and we saw it. A thousand years ago here is not the same as a thousand years ago there
What do you mean by that exactly?
There is no universal frame of reference. "At the same time" isn't a concept for all observers; and "1000 years ago" depends on your frame of reference. For the photon that just hit telescope it happened now, not 1000 years ago.
Unless stated, assume speaker perspective from speaker.
When something happened becomes less meaningful on cosmic scales... Time is distance.
The universe is expanding, which means the time into the past is increasing. That means at some point in the future there will be no stars. If we evolved st that time think of all the knowledge we wouldn't know we didn't know. Our fascination with the stars drove many early mathmaticians and scientists.
Anyone who tells you traveling to the past is impossible is lying.
Just look up.
I dunno if that's really crazy unless you're still just learning about relativity.
No longer finding something fascinating simply because you learned about it long ago is sad.
It’s still fucking crazy, even if I’ve known it to be true for 20 years, I’ll never not pause to think how awesome that is. I hope you do to.