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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With what your describing, the light isn’t storing information. We “see” when light reflects off a surface and then enters our eyes. Obviously is we see a flower that light travels a very short distance to out eyes so we see things as they are right now.
Light is fast and travels at a certain speed. The distance it can travel in one year is called a lightyear. If something is 10 lightyear a way and we see it now, we’re seeing it at the moment it reflected off of that surface 10 years ago.
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