My dumb space thoughts
I was reading about Einstein and there was something that popped into my mind. It has probably been thought of before since there are so many that do that for a living but I was wondering:
I can explain this better with a picture but I'll try to explain it so I remember later...
OK so the light of an exploding star gets here thousands of years after it happened... we see it from here but it happened long ago...
IF we were to look into the sky with the naked eye we have a fixed distance we can see, I have NO idea what that is off-hand so I'm making up these numbers, say 20 light years.
When we're given stats of how long ago something happened that we just saw, that would be based on the distance and how long it took for the light to make it to earth for us to see it. ...
So lets imagine a line representing how far we can see and th
