{"id":637,"date":"2014-06-12T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/?p=637"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T07:46:29","slug":"everything-you-see-is-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/everything-you-see-is-old\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->everything you see is old<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I was recently researching about interstellar distances, I was once again amazed by the relation of time and space and the fact that the light we can see from the stars is also a look back in the past. Light travels with approximately\u00a0300.000 km\/s, for example it takes an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds for the sunlight to reach earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine a pen with a length of 15 cm. How much older is the end facing away from you than the one pointing at you? It is 0.0000000000500346143 seconds older&#8230; fascinating&#8230; Every image you perceive is also a look in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lightspeed_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lightspeed_02-380x228.jpg\" alt=\"lightspeed_02\" class=\"wp-image-643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lightspeed_02-380x228.jpg 380w, https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lightspeed_02-180x108.jpg 180w, https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lightspeed_02-800x480.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lightspeed_02-120x72.jpg 120w, https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lightspeed_02.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I was recently researching about interstellar distances, I was once again amazed by the relation of time and space and the fact that the light we can see from the stars is also a look back in the past. Light travels with approximately\u00a0300.000 km\/s, for example it takes an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds for the sunlight to reach earth.\n\n\n\nImagine a pen with a length of 15 cm. How much older is the end facing away from you than the one pointing at you? It is 0.0000000000500346143 seconds older&#8230; fascinating&#8230; Every image you perceive is also a look in the past.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}