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More-Grocery-1858 t1_jegug9t wrote

What bakes my noodle is the thought that "true location" is a bit of a Newtonian concept. When you factor in the warping of spacetime, the whole universe is a little wibbly wobbly.

It's easy to think of stars and galaxies like they're all in a fishbowl and you're watching them from the outside, but that's not how we experience the universe.

In other words, the 'where' of where something is all depends on how you plan to get there.

From the point of view of the light beam hitting your eye, the star is exactly where it appears to be. From the point of view of traveling there slower than light, your path and the star's position would only converge sometime in the future.

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