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OCR: believe he came up with an ingenious solution Since light takes time r travel through space, it follows that the light striking our retinas from the distant stars is nat the light of the present but light emitted centuries For the most distant stars we are receiving the light which radiated from them thousands and even millions f vears What is true for us is also true hor extra terrestrial observers f earth; depending on their station ir the uni verse they re seeing some earlier state +t earth's history Think about ligh distani thousand years alsa