From: chosp@cox.net   
      
   "download the whole internet"  wrote in message   
   news:b0d730b4.0308210109.6436af33@posting.google.com...   
   > 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???   
      
   Correct.   
      
   Is this right?   
      
   Correct.   
      
   Or am I a plonker??   
      
   Not yet, at least.   
      
   > If this   
   > is right.. then somewhere out there in the universe there is light   
   > from millions of years ago showing how the world began???   
      
   Not millions - but billions.   
      
   > Would this   
   > work???   
      
   In order to view the beginning of the world, you would have   
   to travel instantly to a distance of about 5.6 billion light years   
   and look out your rearview mirror at the earth behind you.   
      
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