Re: Think again! ... many flaws in your line of thinking ....

This is what you said:

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They are, for example, 5 billion light years away (and imagine that distance between us and them is constant, what is impossible).

Question: What would they see through telescope, if looking today at the solar system?

Answer: They would not see the planet EARTH, cause our planet most likely didn't exist 5 billion years ago.
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That makes sense....but tell me if my analogy is wrong:

Let's play like you and me are standing facing each other at a distance of 10 feet. Also let's imagine that we're each holding flashlights and pointing them at each other so that each of us are lit up by the other flashlight. Now let's imagine that we independently started traveling in opposite directions at the speed of light............no matter how far we traveled we'd still see each other's light, whether it be 10 light years or 5 billion light years. So when you say that they wouldn't SEE earth, is this necessarily a fact in light of what I just said?


Now granted you said you believed earth didn't exist 5 billion years ago, so I may be comparing apples to oranges but the concept is what I'm interested in, which basically says that it would not take "billions of years" for a given starlight to reach the earth (and vice versa)....it has always been here.






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