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The whole theory of relativity is based on the fact that the speed of light be constant at 186,000 miles/second or 300,000 K Meters/second. I think their might be a flaw in this that I hope someone can answer for me. The fact our Galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years in diameter, This means that it would take light 100,000 years to go from one end to the other. When we look at other galaxy’s we must assume they average to be very large too, Somewhere between say 50,000 and 500,000 light years in diameter. This being true it would take the light from the far side a the distant galaxy much longer (like 100,000 years) to reach us than the light from the near side of the galaxy This should make the galaxy appear very distorted, and warped in the direction of travel. But they appear to be pretty nicely shaped in elliptical or spiral patterns, why is this. Is there some kind of explanation for this??
Re: Distortion of a galaxy from light speed
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