Do the photons containing the image of the first star…
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Do the photons containing the image of the first star still exist out there somewhere in the universe?
I'm thinking of how, we can see Beetlegeuse how it was about 650\~ years ago because that's how many light years away it is from us, and there's no way we could ever see it how it was 700\~ years ago because the photons 'carrying' that image have passed by Earth 50 years ago, and you can't travel faster than light to get ahead of them. Someone else, 50 light years in that direction, will see them though.
So, let's consider one of the earliest images of the universe. Maybe the birth of the first star. Do the photons/its image go on forever, according to modern scientific understanding?
#science
I'm thinking of how, we can see Beetlegeuse how it was about 650\~ years ago because that's how many light years away it is from us, and there's no way we could ever see it how it was 700\~ years ago because the photons 'carrying' that image have passed by Earth 50 years ago, and you can't travel faster than light to get ahead of them. Someone else, 50 light years in that direction, will see them though.
So, let's consider one of the earliest images of the universe. Maybe the birth of the first star. Do the photons/its image go on forever, according to modern scientific understanding?
#science
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