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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I think I can do this! So when people wanted to communicate or send information over distances we developed what smoke signals? Which were short or long blooms of smoke viewed and translated over a distance. Then we got oh so smarter and figured we would write whole letters or communicate a verbal message through a message carrier. So more info but slower because we had to transport it ourselves. Then electricity and Morse code! So back to short long smoke plumes but they move at the speed of electricity/sound (ah cause they are beeps!). After that A. G. Bell (or really someone else he stole it I think) came up with a telephone. This and radio made it so we could actually speak with someone far away so even more information! So light travels faster than like anything right? What if we could sense if a piece of light, a photon, was a long plume of smoke or a short one? So a small bit of info like before but you get it at the speed of light! Now what if we could do this with 100 photons that’s like a sentence at the speed of light but what if we could do more like 1000 photons, a page, or a million like a book all at once then a movie then a hard drive then all the hard drives. If you have something like a light telephone you can gather and understand all that data and boom light transports a ton of data. Maybe this helps this is not my field lol.
Sorry not sure about storing data but I guess if you could get a piece of light to do it’s thing indefinitely and you could still read it with your light telephone it would always read the same effectively storing it? No sure…
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