[Southack]

"2. From the Earth's point of view, the Sun is always where it "really" was 8 minutes ago."

And yet, without "seeing" where our Sun is at this very moment in the present, the Earth is nonetheless drawn not to where the Sun was 8.3 minutes ago, but to where the Sun resides at the present moment.

Hmmm...

[Physicist]

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