To: exDemMom
>All those stars out there generate a LOT of light—light doesn’t just disappear.
It doesn’t disappear, but it does have to fill a truly immense volume, so that’s why space is dark. It’s the cubic increase of volume thing. The space between galaxies is far far larger than the galaxies themselves.
27 posted on
06/04/2012 5:13:57 AM PDT by
drbuzzard
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To: drbuzzard
It doesn’t disappear, but it does have to fill a truly immense volume, so that’s why space is dark. It’s the cubic increase of volume thing. The space between galaxies is far far larger than the galaxies themselves. Ah. So the light really is there, but it's below our limit of detection (at least, our biological limit). Unless we look directly at a star, that is. Thanks.
40 posted on
06/07/2012 4:45:29 AM PDT by
exDemMom
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