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Default 04-30-2008, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by grip_daddy View Post
So given that C cannot have any other way of knowing that actually B fired first, isn't he wrong in his sense of knowledge that event A happened before event B? Accordingly, he is receiving future events before past events, which would mean that sense of future, present and, past are limited to our five senses of perception?
This is very deep stuff, Bwana Grip.

As a child, I often wondered if you could chase light rays, overtake them and then look back and "see" what has already happened!!

With regards to light, I think scientists measure various properties of the signal to determine its weakness. That's how they determine "light years" even though two signals arrive at a space lab at the same time.
 


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