They are shifted so far to the red that when they reach us, they are stop lights.
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 9:42 AM Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Same Q! My guess is what they meen is that stuff is reely far away so it'd > be like looking at events that had happened but we can catchup to the show > because of distance somehow due to lag essentially. Someone that knows more > about this then I do hopefully has a much more concrete answer. Fwiw it's > the kind of things that keeps NDGT ( Niel DeGrasse Tyson) up lol > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:21 AM Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> > wrote: > >> In aj NYTimes article: >> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/science/astronomy-webb-telescope.html >> ..there is the usual discussion on "seeing back to the first several >> millennia". >> >> But, and be kind, why haven't these photons already sped past us? I >> suppose it is because the exanssion is uniformly everywhere, we just kept >> ahead of them? That seems unlikely given the expansion is slower than light. >> >> -- Owen >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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