(May 21, 2025 at 4:11 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:COUGH wavelength COUGH!(May 21, 2025 at 3:58 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Not only can light have a multitude of sources besides the Sun (the premise of my argument), light is always independent from it's source. Surely, you know many of the stars we see at night no longer exist.
None of them most likely. Almost all of the few thousand stars in the night sky are within a few hundred light-years of Earth. With a very few exceptions, all of the starlight that you see originated from after the reign of Queen Victoria.
Quote:The source is gone, all that's left is unshackled, independent light crossing the universe.
Not unless you're invoking an unusually high and lethal supernova rate.
Want to try rocks next?
COUGH redshift COUGH!
