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Re:Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022 by Achshar on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @12:27PM (#13366711)
In what sense? If we can't reach some specific space/time coordinate, it's for all intents and purposes unreachable.
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Re:Stars may collide in a “red nova” in 2022 by euyyn on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:14PM (#13370934)
Well, the speed of light isn't the speed of anything with mass. The rest is only indirectly connected to that.

The collision did already happen, from our frame of reference. Its light arriving to us will be just a confirmation.

From some other frame of reference (one moving very fast in the line that joins Earth and the collision), it might not have happened yet.

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