• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    This is just the law of really big numbers.

    Something literally astronomical relative to something subatomic is necessarily going to happen.

    A Star is really really big but more importantly it produces a more than a lot of photon’s

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      13 days ago

      You have a point, buuut: photons don’t experience time or distance. Leaving the star and hitting the bull’s eye happen in the same instant for them, no matter how many billions of light years apart they are. From the point of view of the photon, the bull’s eye is touching that star in that other galaxy. For just that single instant in time.