[Attempting to explain distant starlight in a 6000-year old universe]
Can the light from this or any other such supernovae be seen from earth with the naked eye... if a telescope is required to see the supernovae then the light would not have necessarily reached earth yet.
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I can see the Andromada Galaxy, M31, from my backyard with a fairly cheap telescope, and so can you if you bother to try. It is 2 million light years away. If the light hasn't reached here yet, it would be impossible to see, since there would be nothing to see in that place. So we know from my backyard obsrevation, the Universe is at least 333 times the age given by Genesis, and then some.
Gh... I... but you...
Dave, I'm scared Dave
Will I dream?
Arrrrrgggghhhhhh!
The Stupid!
But if the light hasn't reached us ye,,,, oh never mind. He wouldn't understand.
Since the invention of the telescope none have occured close enough to be seen by the naked eye. However, around the time of the Dark Ages, a supernova could be seen even in the daytime sky with the unaided eye. Since the Church at the time held a doctrine that the sky was the abode of Jehovah no one was permitted to note its existence. Thankfully though, the Chinese astronomers had no such restrictions and they took copious notes.
Ah, bless.
Telescopes do not work that way. They merely take light that is too dim for the human eye to see and focus it to make it possible to see it.
Also, there have been supernovas that were visible with the naked eye.
I want a telescope like that! Createe, buy me one and I will never explain science to a fundie again. I will never publicly /argue/ with one without an invite. Hell, I might look up Big J's number, since you'd seem to be onto something...
So lenses in telescopes - and even binoculars - can accelerate photons, so they exceed the speed of light: Tachyons?!
If you can come up with a thesis to back up what you 'claim' here, that Nobel Prize is yours for the asking, o CretinousOne!
Astronomy fail, optics fail, cosmology fail, physics fail, and a history fail.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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