I’m not sure if I worded my question correctly, but let me try to explain more.
If we use a giant telescope to look at another planet 10 light years away from us, we would be looking at how it was 10 years ago. The thing I don’t understand is how does light store and also transfer all the information about that planet (or all the “data” that ends up in our eyes) and yet it’s still the fastest thing.
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Why would the speed of the light affect the information it carries? Maybe reform you question with another post as there isn’t an answer to what you are saying.
Imagine if someone throws a basketball at you. You catch it. That’s like one bit of light, one photon. One piece of information. You could use basketballs to bounce of a building, then build a giant basketball “antenna” that would catch them after they rebounded. The speed the basketball bounces doesn’t change the information it carries. You could use smaller balls, like ping pong balls , and you’d get a clearer, sharper image of the building. Or use a really small ball, maybe a BB? Even better picture.
the smaller the ‘ball’ that you bounce of something, the sharper the image. but also the more balls it takes. more information, more data. If you were to take apart a digital camera and put its image sensor under a microscope, you would see that it’s really just a ball catcher in a grid.
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