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    Graduate Different Slices of Now Observable from Earth?

    Dr. Greg. Although Brian Greene does not use the word "see", I inferred it since the same slice of now means the alien would see the event(Beethoven or the gas station) if it had a large enough telescope. After all it is 10 billion light years away. Seeing this distance is just a technicality...
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    Graduate Different Slices of Now Observable from Earth?

    The following is from the transcript from the Nova series The Illusion of Time: BRIAN GREENE: To get a feel for the bizarre effect this can have, imagine an alien, here, in a galaxy 10-billion light years from Earth, and way over there, on Earth, the guy at the gas station. Now, if the two...
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    Graduate Different Slices of Now Observable from Earth?

    Thank you PatrickPowers. I have been wondering about this since I read Fabric of the Cosmos two years ago. The way I understand the alien in Brian Greene's PBS Nova series is that the alien is on a planet 10 billion light years from earth. Our planet and his planet are not moving relative to...
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    Graduate Different Slices of Now Observable from Earth?

    Different "Slices of Now" Observable from Earth? Brian Greene's excellent series continued last week on PBS with "The Illusion of Time" in which he showed with graphics how different "nows" occur depending on the motion of an observer. Using the example of a space alien 10 billion light years...