my theory of space & time

[Charles Manson]

So if the light we see from distant stars took millions or billions of years to reach us, so what do they look like right now? We'll have to wait another millions or billions of years to see them. What if they're not even there right now? How can we trust that anything we see in the sky is actually there? Suppose we're seeing snap shots of the past of the development of our own solar system. In each segment of space, each star that we see is associated with a certain time in the creation of our own sun and if one were to discover the proper sequence one could put together something similar to a time-lapsed film.