But... how can we KNOW what is out there NOW?

i would rather have both.
1--- the ancient fossil light for astro-archaeology.
2--- an immediate relevant source of imaging for NOW.
then we would know a great deal more
jc

perhaps some day we will discover a negative wave in dark matter that has
infinite speed. one never knows...
jc

Ya I know, I just replaced the Lightbulb and relite the pilot light.


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"lal_truckee" wrote in message
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Starlord wrote:

Well, it seems that your doomed to see what you call "ancient fossil light "
as
even Light itself has a limit of the speed it can go. Heck, while short,
look at
the time it takes light to reach Earth from our own sun.

Yeah. Did you know the Sun went out about 4 minutes ago? Poof! Like a
candle?



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Scribe2b wrote:
i would rather have both.
1--- the ancient fossil light for astro-archaeology.
2--- an immediate relevant source of imaging for NOW.
then we would know a great deal more
jc


perhaps some day we will discover a negative wave in dark matter that has
infinite speed. one never knows...
jc

IF light (or something containing information) was of instantaneous
speed, I'm not sure we would learn anything more....in fact, we might
even lose information; consider the fact that we can study the
early Universe right after the BB now, with light and other forms
of electromagnetic radiation of finite speed....BUT, if light (all
forms) were, say, instantaneous, then all the early Universe
information, would be forever lost to us...
in addition to the CMBR radiation.
FWIW,
Tom W.

IF light (or something containing information) was of instantaneous
speed, I'm not sure we would learn anything more....in fact, we might
even lose information; consider the fact that we can study the
early Universe right after the BB now, with light and other forms
of electromagnetic radiation of finite speed....BUT, if light (all
forms) were, say, instantaneous, then all the early Universe
information, would be forever lost to us...
in addition to the CMBR radiation.
FWIW,
Tom W.



tom
were we able to study comparative images, of infinite wavespeed images (now)
relative too lightspeed fossil images, we would learn much indeed.
that is what i attempted to describe.
jere