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Originally posted by bdjuf
oh god... 
if we know the average life of a star (lets say its less than 6 billion years, for example)
and we know that its more than 6 billion light years away
we can then deduct that the star no longer exists
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we can also deduct that we are seeing an image from the past. so?
if that planet explodes today but we don't see the explosion for 100 years, it doesn't mean that it still didn't explode today.
what we SEE is irrelevant to time.