When you look into a night sky you see the stars far away,
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you're seeing them because of the light which travels from
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them to you. Now it takes time for light to travel here, so
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what you are doing is seeing the stars as they were in the
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past, the amount of time it has taken for the light to reach
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us and the further and further away those stars are, the
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further back in time you are looking. Now you are seeing a
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star that is say six thousand years ago, imagine somebody
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on that star looking at us, they would be seeing us as we
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were six thousand years ago. Which of those two is now?
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So space and time are linked together. As we are looking
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across space, we are looking back in time.
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-Prof. Frank Close
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Temporalia
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Alan Parsons Project |