The Speed Of Light ??

[burbguy82]

I'm the same way. The problem is for every question you find a plausible answer to, it brings up another question or questions.

Agreed. the more you learn the less you know sort of thing.

Without light, the universe would be nonsensical. It would be void and without form...... And without causality. The beginning and end end would be the same thing.

We would be everywhere and nowhere at the same time.....actually time would not be a thing either........weird to think about. My 2nd grader intellect can see that one.

 

[Jetronic]

My 2nd grader mind still cannot get past something about this topic.....for those who are experts, please forgive me.

How can we measure great distances? With a reasonable degree of certainty?

What I mean is:

Radar or sonar right? We send out a thing, and a thing comes back, the TIME is measured, and boom we know where something is, and how far.

Well when some thing is super far, like 3 million light years away......it would seem to me (stupid me) that it would take a bunch of time to get that data. somewhere in the 3 million years range, which I will add is a hurdle.

I have a mild understanding of Trig, as it applies to long range shooting, but I still have to have a reference on the reticle size, and a size of target to accurately gauge distance. When something is supposed to be 3 million lys away, I just dont see how we can come to a conclusion about distance.

For all we know, our neighbor, Andromeda, which is 2.5 million light years away, was eaten by by Galactus yesterday, but we would never see it.

I have yet to find a resource that will turn the switch on, for me on this one.

it would take 6 million years

 

[Jetronic]

Cool, but…

When it gets to 200 in under 3, I’ll be impressed…

attach it to a catapult

 

[Astro14]

attach it to a catapult

That’s exactly what I was comparing it to! I figured someone would get it.

Amazing car, but…

 

[billt460]

At the risk of adding more complexity to an already complex subject. Do the top astrophysicist's in the world have any opinion as pertaining to the pyramids, and their construction?

The more I hear about their presiceness, size, and tremendous weight, the more difficult it becomes to believe they were constructed by sheer manpower.

 

[burbguy82]

At the risk of adding more complexity to an already complex subject. Do the top astrophysicist's in the world have any opinion as pertaining to the pyramids, and their construction?

The more I hear about their presiceness, size, and tremendous weight, the more difficult it becomes to believe they were constructed by sheer manpower.

That is a departure for sure, but it is your thread.

I have thought about the pyramids and other ancient wonders myself.

if we could, to the day, know when they were built, then teleport that distance in light years away from earth, we should be able to answer that question.......but you would never be able to share it.

actually maybe not. as millions of years would have past for earth, but not you....dont know.