From: dstdba@post4.tele.dk   
      
   "Richard Schumacher"  wrote in message   
    news:3F493226.BA8E1EF2@thank-you.com...   
      
   > download the whole internet wrote:   
   >   
   > > OK, this is just a thought but... If the nearest star is 4 light years   
   > > away then we are seeing light which is 4 years old?? So what we are   
   > > looking at is the past??? Is this right? Or am I a plonker?? If this   
   > > is right.. then somewhere out there in the universe there is light   
   > > from millions of years ago showing how the world began??? Would this   
   > > work???   
   >   
   > Yes, except that that light is going away from us, so we'll never see it.   
   > And it's too dim, and pretty well torn up by dust, garvitty and whatnot so   
   > that it could never be turned into an image.   
      
    So, you believe light going away from us is never coming back   
    to us?  That also spells end of story to the 1G constant acceleration   
    'round the Universe in 50 years' trip which some scientists used to   
    envisage.   
      
    If the great cosmic topology issue is thus all settled, then I shall no   
    longer have to cross my fingers in the faint hope that a scientific   
    breakthrough will point to matching patterns of ancient emissions   
    from a multitude of directions :-)   
      
   -Jens   
      
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