and i could look back at earth with a powerful enough telescope that i could see inside my childhood home, i would not see things as they are now. instead, i would see things as they were two years ago.
the distance of space is so vast that when we look through it, we are looking through time. the farther something is from you, the further back in time it appears. therefore, if i could see into that house from that distance in space and time, my mother would still be alive. she still is alive and always will be, just from somewhere else in space and time.
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