There and here at the same time .

[hutch622]

I would think the light with its images would be aged by the amount of time in years it took those images to travel to our eyesight and if it takes 2.5 Billion years for an image at that exact time to reach you, the next image could be of a White Dwarf Star because as the Star is 2.5 Billion years old, it could have past its life span. I always thought we were looking at the past.
Or,,,, I don't know!

Yes i get what your saying and it does take 2.5 billion years to get here , in our timeline . But for things travelling at the speed of light time stops as i understand it . So would not that particle of light not experiencing time be in its own timeline both here and there at the same time . And yes we are always seeing things things that happened in the past .

A single photon would be at one single point in space at any given time.
Travelling at the speed of light, the photon would still take 2.5 billion years to travel from Andromeda (which is 2.5 billion light years away) to us here on Earth.
From the photon's perspective... it can still (in theory) only be in one place at one time BUT time (as we know it) wouldn't exist for the Photon!
Once emitted (as a particle of light), it could exist for hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of our years without any time (or distance) passing from it's own perspective before being absorbed again at its destination.
So, from the Photon's own perspective, you could say that it existed both here and there at the same time, but time (as we know it) doesn't really apply to photons travelling at the speed of light!
Clear as Mud IMHO, but a great topic to chew on!

G

Yes , this was all meant to be about the photons perspective , not that they have one of course . I posed this as a question for star talk about a month ago but have heard nothing in reply as to if it was going to make it on the program .