Astronomical distances, light speed, and uncertainty

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11. That does help. Thank you.

You re-stated my whole babble-fest of an original post in one phrase, which is pretty cool.

Interestingly (umm... maybe), I ended up reading up on Hubble's Law last week, after I was told that an acquaintance of a family member might contact me in hope that I could serve as a "math whiz" to help him with his project to disprove Hubble's Law. (Luckily I am no math whiz, so I can dodge out of this easily. You learn to throw around quaternions and cross products for 3D programming and suddenly everyone thinks you can solve complex physics problems. Umm.)

Anyway. It turns out that there is some effort by creationists to attack the big bang theory by invalidating Hubble's Law. I'm pretty sure this fellow must be one of them. If he's a serious scientist, even amateur, I would hope he could do the math himself. An odd and troubling business....

I did really identify with the protagonist in The Idiot, for various reasons.