I guess that's the puzzle, since we can't use triangulation to measure distance for stars we use various corollaries for age to measure distance and of distance to measure age, according to the equations that have seemed to make sense so far. That the equations have not been making sense in several ways, like needing the invention of dark energy and dark matter to bend them for other discrepancies, is what science keeps doing, adding "epicycles" on old theory until some complete impasse arises... and someone finally has to think up something completely new. If others don't come to the same impasse, like not seeing that emergence *must* be a local individual developmental process and so not asking *how*, no amount of good solutions for the problem will be recognized.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies > > Dumb question for you cosmologists to chew over: > > How can they be so far away and yet so young? Or, to put it even > dumber, > are there parts of the Universe that are so far away that they havent > happened yet? > > I guess this is a question about scales of distance vis a vis scales of > time. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Friam mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 63, Issue 3 > > ************************************ > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
