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Try this:
Vega, a star over four light years away went supernova yesterday, It simply blew up.Looking thru my 12 inch telescope it looks just as it did two weeks ago. A little over four years from now, it will look quite different in my scope.
If the earth was rotating slower, my day would be longer, and my years would be longer as well if earth was slower in its orbit. As far as I am concerned, It would take longer for the light from Vega to get here so I could see the nova. The light however, would not notice and would take the same length of "time" or "space" to get here. Thus we have a constant, relative to my observation.
My question is this. Does the "fact" that light takes this period to travel here constitute a length of time, or a length of space?
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