
137 - How Do You Know?
No Dumb Questions
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Is That an Empiricist or an I?
The way we observe the world is limited to the things we can detect. The james webb space telescope has massive amounts ofin red detection capability. We are detecting things that are shifted into the infra red spectrum. Because of the dopler effect, a, things that are expanding away from you, the they'll shift red. That's called the red shift. And so if i threw a baseball,. and we were looking at that with the right technology from behind me, the red shift would be visible at that small a scale. Or does it take something real big for that to be evident?
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