(October 24, 2014 at 9:10 am)dyresand Wrote:(October 24, 2014 at 8:55 am)TreeSapNest Wrote: I'm still lost. If the quasar is presently 13 billion light years away the light would have to travel 13 billion light years (~75 billion trillion miles) in an instant.
closer its not getting there in an instant it is the light coming from said previous location it was if the star is 13billion light years away it wont be in the same place by the time when we get there going back to earth it looks like its in the same spot. light in a vacuum anything can mess with it we are getting the older photons from that quasar no new ones.
We seem to be in agreement. When we view the light from the quasar we are seeing it where it was 13 billion years ago. 13 billion years ago it was already approx. 75 billion trillion miles from us. So my question is then, how did we get so far apart in such a young universe?
