He’s a Bright One
I had an argument about how light travels through space. It seems like a scientific argument on the surface. While the context was scientific, the content was far from it. My younger brother was arguing about the age of the universe with me. I told him it was 13.8 billion years old and he told me it was 6000.
I explained to him that if the universe was only 6,000 years old, we would not be able to see stars more than 6,000 lightyears away. And because we can see stars billions of lightyears away the universe must be at least that old.
Now I expected his argument to be, “How do we know those stars are billions of lightyears away? How do we know they aren’t closer?” and I had a good follow-up for that.
But no, he went with, “well that’s because the light from those stars was placed closer to Earth when it was created, so we could see them.” I had no follow-up for that.
He took my speechlessness as a victory. You might think by “younger brother” I mean a boy who is 10 or 11 years old. No, he’s 24. Story credit: Reddit / reincarN8ed