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"Space exists but it is entagled with time."
Graffito on a relativistic bathroom stall.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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yes, moving through space takes time as we know it, even at the speed of light. When things are light years apart, time is just that, not instantly.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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if you are traveling at the speed of light the universe contracts to zero space so the time it takes to travel across it as you measure time on your pocket watch is zero .
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I'll defer physics to you but
but we have measured those distances and time is required by light to traverse them.
Not sure we would be any different except our experience of normal time inside our light machine would be an illusion because when we get to where we are going the time there would have moved ahead. Let's face it light speed travel is not well understood.
We do know that when radio signals travel long distances, even though close to speed of light, there are time delays we must account for. GPS uses such information to triangulate locations.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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we have measured the time it takes light to travel distances w/ our rulers and our clocks which are not traveling w/ the light . the speed of light is of course finite so a finite non-zero time is required to travel any distance as we measure space and time in our laboratory reference frame .
as for being "different" i assume you are referring wrt to light beam reference frame and our laboratory reference frame. Special Relativity has this all figured out . The Lorentz Transformation Equations (LTEs) give us all the information we require . as a mathematician this of course is trivial to yourself .
as for the time "there" yes of course time there would have elapsed by some duration . but that is not our concern as we travel to there at the speed of light . again the LTEs explain all this . the LTEs have never been found to be wrong .
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Thanx. Not that familiar with TLE's. I'll look at them.
Yes, I do understand special relativity, etc.
But doing the math and doing the deed are not always on the same page.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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yes, nice video with very clear math. thanx
since we are not photons with regard to time, we can at least project ourselves as such. how weird is that "everywhere at once". God stuff.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Space: the final frontier
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yup
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
-- Douglas Adams
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I remember that quote from Doug's Hitchhikers Guide. Love his books.
If you have been following NASA's Webb telescope events, space is really, really big. Webb spotted light that is estimated to be 13.1 billion light years away. (don't understand exactly how they measured it, but is a really far away.
NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet | NASA[^]
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yes, I have been visiting the Webb telescope's web site on a regular basis. Amazing photos!
I don't know enough astronomy to evaluate the other data coming from the telescope, but I expect those results to be just as groundbreaking.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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jmaida wrote: that is estimated to be 13.1 billion light years away
So the pizza is definitely going to be cold by the time it gets here.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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[SPACE IS BIG]
[SPACE IS DARK]
[ITS HARD TO FIND]
[A PLACE TO PARK]
[BURMA SHAVE]
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lol 
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"The reason time exists is so that everything does not happen at once."
Old Swedish saying
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so".
Old H2G2 saying.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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"Time has never moved, only we have moved" - Old Sanskrit saying.
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"When God created time, he made plenty of it."
Irish/Celtic saying.
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Use your time wisely, you don't know how many of it you have...
(I don't know who told it)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"If you learn how to value time, you will have enough. If you don't value time, then you will suffer from the lack of time."
- Author unknown. Ripped from the internet from some obscure webpage with a bunch of quotes on time.
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"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
Mark Twain
And "time is relative" (paraphrasing), lest we forget the master of time, Albert Einstein
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“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time rushed through life trying to save."
― Will Rogers
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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