Recent content by Frank Stepien

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    Graduate Why do photons from distant objects reach us after billions of years?

    jimgraber, Thank you for correcting my semantics (I agree !) & for the link. This was a rather painful experience for me. I started on the wrong foot by not explaining what the word IMAGE meant to me. After all, visible light image, infra red image, wide view image, narrow view/highly focussed...
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    Graduate Why do photons from distant objects reach us after billions of years?

    DhruvKumar, I am trying hard not to respond to individuals. But, you changed all that by your "Hey man Can't you post your question in easy language.when i am reading this question.I feel i am reading some English mixed with some other language." Really: is this English ? Also, you are so...
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    Graduate Why do photons from distant objects reach us after billions of years?

    Having doug myself into a hole, I might, as well, deepen it: Electromagnetic radiation: I am aware that it is this that this & our ingenuity give us various ways of looking at the Universe.This is the reason why I put the words WE SEE in inverted commas. But, what is it that gives the EM...
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    Graduate Why do photons from distant objects reach us after billions of years?

    phinds: I agree: - my wording is msleading, especially the words "fleeting" and "to us". What I meant was that images we "see" do not allow us to "play back" what has happened before or to slow things up so that we can see the details of very violent events in the Universe. Hence my use of...
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    Graduate Why do photons from distant objects reach us after billions of years?

    We "see" distant objects as they were , sometimes, very, very, long time ago. I assume these images are all in the fleeting / transient - for us - category. What is it in their nature that makes them last - for us, and, potentially, other observers, to "see" them. In our world, all images...