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BWdem4life

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15. Well, we know light can be bent

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Nov 25, 2023, 04:45 PM

Nov 2023

And there ARE other massive things in the universe. So, probably it didn't go in a straight line to us from wherever it came from. Either that, or the object it came from no longer exists.

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