Asri-unix.904
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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:sri-unix!KING@KESTREL
Fri Mar  5 08:20:40 1982
the distance of quasars
	We have been running away from the light source (in that
source's reference frame) for 10 billion years.  It took a while for
the photons to overtake us.  Put differently, the object's proximity
to us at "big bang" time is partially a relativistic compression.

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