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348. Black Holes, Time Travel, and the Origin of the Universe | Dr. Brian Keating

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Importance of Time Machines

All telescopes are time machines of a sort, because light as fast as it travels is not infinite. And the farther away something is, the longer the light traveled to reach your eyes or to reach our telescopes. So when we look at the sun, you're seeing it as it was eight minutes ago and that period in which it was was 93 million miles away.

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