IamJoseph writes:
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No, they're not in any way interchangeable. It's as much nonsense to say "eons of light-years" as it is to say "a month of miles."
A month of miles is not the same.
Crash did not say that "a month of miles" is the same as "eons of light years." He said that "a month of miles" is as nonsensical as "eons of light years."
IamJoseph writes:
The cluster of Virgo is not merely so many miles away, but expressed in the time it takes that light to reach earth. That is why it is termed light YEARS.
It is difficult to tell whether the problem is garbled syntax or garbled comprehension, but a light year is a measure of distance, and is equal to the distance light travels in a year. Since a light year is equal to 5.87x10
12 miles, saying something like "eons of light-years" is the same as saying "eons of many miles," and makes as little sense.
So when you said back in
Message 23 that "the dust of earth's matter does not result in life by itself, even given eons of light years," that's equivalent to saying, "the dust of earth's matter does not result in life by itself, even given eons of many miles."
Is that really what you meant to say?
--Percy