If the stars we see are light from millions of light years away and they see our Sun’s light the same, is the whole universe “existing” in the same time?

Question

Hi all, I didn’t know how to formulate the question in a non stupid way so I’ll explain.

If the light we see from stars in the sky are actually “the past” as they’ve left their source light years ago, from another point in the universe another planet sees our Sun’s light the same way, correct?

If that’s the case, if there was an “universal year” or an “Universe’s current year”, would all the stars and planets be living in the same year?

Maybe I am 5, I feel 5 right now.

Thanks 🙂

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Answer 1

One thing is reality, and another thing is information. Photons (light particles) forming a pattern that your eyeballs+brain can interpret is nothing but information. The actual photon is in the present, not the past

So no, the past doesn’t exist, but clues about what it looked like do exist, all around the universe.