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Originally Posted by NEOWatcher
How far back is "current"?
If you type the word "now" then "current" is already in the past. To talk about something that is "current" there has to be some accepted window of time.
Now, with that in mind. You open up the window to a period of time which may be grand on our scale, but a blip on the scale of the universe.
You make various observations with that "current" universe, and you see that it corresponds to observations of the universe in the past.
Why is that non-scientific?
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Hello Neo
By 'current' universe I am trying to refer to the 'now' moment which is ever changing. A permanent 'now' so to speak which is never in the past. Obviously it is very elusive when you try to catch hold of it (so to speak) but I think we can still talk about it.
The main point of my posting is that very quickly our view of space is 'distorted' because we are looking back in time. We are not seeing 'now'.
Even our technical instruments (more powerful and accurate 'observers' than the human eye) cannot receive readings any faster than light speed (correct me if I am wrong) so even they are getting a 'distorted' reading regarding the 'now' universe.
And yet Cosmologists seem to make regular 'claims' (hypotheses) about the 'now' universe eg 'the universe IS expanding' implying that it is expanding NOW.
To me this is an assertion (hypothesis) about the unobservable - which puts the claim into the realm of Non-Science since a fundamental requirement for a scientific hypothesis is that the hypothesis can be tested and testing must require some form of observation.