by Ann » Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:19 pm
DL MARTIN wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:11 pm
Question:
What if we were to see life similar to ours on a planet in Andromeda. Would we classify it as existing in the present or something that existed 2 million+ years ago? As it stands now the unwashed public is left with the impression that the Andromeda seen nightly is current events. Well, now we step off the Earth and no sooner are we looking for fossils perhaps billions of years old on another entity - Mars. How acan Andromeda be described as awy while Mars is is being examined in the 'ago'?
When I was 15 years old and saw Andromeda for the first time, I fantasized that there was a girl inside Andromeda that was much like me, and she was looking back at me. I wanted to wave at her.
I remembered that feeling and that wish, but a few years later I realized that if my wave at her had been a signal moving at the speed of light, it would take more than 2 million years for that signal to reach Andromeda. So if that girl was anything like me or like the kind of higher life forms that we know of on the Earth, she could most certainly not have a life span of 2 million years. So if she existed "now", and I sent a signal to her "now", she would be dead long, long before my signal reached her.
And if she somehow suspected that I existed "now", and sent a signal to me, it wouldn't reach me until after 2 million years into the Earth's future, when I most certainly would have been dead for a long, long time.
It's simple. There is no simultaneity in spacetime.
Accept it. At the very least, refrain from complaining about it on this site. Starship Asterisk* is not a consumer protection agency that you can turn to if you are unsatisfied with the tremendous unimaginable distances in space, and the inability of Earth and Earthlings to share the spacetime coordinates of other parts of the Milky Way, let alone the spacetime coordinates of other galaxies in the Universe.
Ann
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Question:
What if we were to see life similar to ours on a planet in Andromeda. Would we classify it as existing in the present or something that existed 2 million+ years ago? As it stands now the unwashed public is left with the impression that the Andromeda seen nightly is current events. Well, now we step off the Earth and no sooner are we looking for fossils perhaps billions of years old on another entity - Mars. How acan Andromeda be described as awy while Mars is is being examined in the 'ago'?
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When I was 15 years old and saw Andromeda for the first time, I fantasized that there was a girl inside Andromeda that was much like me, and she was looking back at me. I wanted to wave at her.
I remembered that feeling and that wish, but a few years later I realized that if my wave at her had been a signal moving at the speed of light, it would take more than 2 million years for that signal to reach Andromeda. So if that girl was anything like me or like the kind of higher life forms that we know of on the Earth, she could most certainly not have a life span of 2 million years. So if she existed "now", and I sent a signal to her "now", she would be dead long, long before my signal reached her.
And if she somehow suspected that I existed "now", and sent a signal to me, it wouldn't reach me until after 2 million years into the Earth's future, when I most certainly would have been dead for a long, long time.
It's simple. There is no simultaneity in spacetime.
Accept it. At the very least, refrain from complaining about it on this site. Starship Asterisk* is not a consumer protection agency that you can turn to if you are unsatisfied with the tremendous unimaginable distances in space, and the inability of Earth and Earthlings to share the spacetime coordinates of other parts of the Milky Way, let alone the spacetime coordinates of other galaxies in the Universe.
Ann