Interesting reflection, Frank. --Doug
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Frank Wimberly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Makes me wonder...if there were a large mirror 71.5 light years away could > we, in principle, with a powerful enough telescope, witness, say, the > Gettysburg Address? > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Kenneth Lloyd > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity > Coffee Group' > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies > > Nick, > > Things that are further away are older (GR). It's just that the light > coming from them has taken so long to get here. > > Ken > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson > > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:09 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies > > > > Dumb question for you cosmologists to chew over: > > > > How can they be so far away and yet so young? Or, to put it > > even dumber, > > are there parts of the Universe that are so far away that > > they havent happened yet? > > > > I guess this is a question about scales of distance vis a vis > > scales of time. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark > > University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Friam mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > > > > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 63, Issue 3 > > > ************************************ > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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