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Originally Posted by Shiraz
This stuff is real fun - where else can you see some of the weird predictions of Einstein's theories laid out in such a way. Thankfully photons do not have a use-by date - a few of those coming off my screen as I type are escaping through the window and flying off out into the universe - and they will keep on travelling out there for the rest of time. That is a cool thought. It is also cool that each arc photon that my system detected, popped into being in a star that was over half way across the universe and it happened 8 billion years ago - and then each photon travelled all that way to get here, passing galaxies, stars and dust clouds. While the photons were on their journeys, the sun and earth formed, life started up and humans evolved - eventually one of those humans had a telescope pointed in just the right direction at just the right time and a few of those tiny photons passed down the 10 inch aperture of my scope and then finally gave up their energy and information in my tiny CCD.
regards Ray
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Wowsers Ray, your a real light-hearted fan
I imagined a cricketer outfielding, the ball is struck, high and far it flies, meanwhile the legs of a human fires up and scramms across millions of blades of grass,
But Hey, - You Win !!!
