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While listening to a talk on TED by David Deutsch (the talk was "Our Place in the Cosmos" from July 2005), he made a statement which just dumbfounded me. He certainly sounded like a knowledgeable guy in the rest of the talk, but here's what he said. I would appreciate any comments on this.
This is NOT an exact quote or even close, but it IS an exact representation of the meaning of what he said.
A typical place in the universe would be far away from any stars or galaxies and would be, visually, TOTALLY BLACK. You would not see anything. No stars, no galaxies, nothing. In fact, if you were looking in the direction of a typical-distance super-nova at the time when its light arrived at your location it would be so faint that you would not see anything.
HUH ?
This is NOT an exact quote or even close, but it IS an exact representation of the meaning of what he said.
A typical place in the universe would be far away from any stars or galaxies and would be, visually, TOTALLY BLACK. You would not see anything. No stars, no galaxies, nothing. In fact, if you were looking in the direction of a typical-distance super-nova at the time when its light arrived at your location it would be so faint that you would not see anything.
HUH ?
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