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I always wonder if light traveled billions of years to get here wouldn’t it be possible that it got distorted along the way? What if all these galaxies are just

I always wonder if light traveled billions of years to get here wouldn’t it be possible that it got distorted along the way? What if all these galaxies are just a sort of a typical pattern of what light looks like after an unfathomably long journey through space/gravity/time/etc? It could be likely that what we’re seeing is no indication of what was ever actually out there.

jesse_faden 4y ago
It does. One effect of light passing through gravitational wells is gravitational lensing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens There is also Redshift. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift