I suppose the math must be wrong then orac.
think of a transparent sphere with a radius of the furthest star that we can see.
now think about being on any point on the sphere
looking in at its center.
if the electron gun is located at the center of the sphere
and is switched on just long enough for a single flash to
occur.
and for now lets say that the radius of the sphere is 1 light year.
in 1 year the photons of light would reach you.
and you could see them from any point on the surface of
the sphere if you had a powerful enough telescope.
now how many photons are reaching the transparent sphere?
does the math tell you that the photons would not be
observable from any point on the sphere?
if so then how small would a sphere need to be in order
to observe the photons from any point on the sphere?
the sphere just gave me an idea , perhaps light is
like a infinitely expanding sphere and the thickness
of the light sphere is what we currently think of as
the length of a light wave.
when you think of a water wave as in
a tiny drop of water that is dropped onto a smooth water surface the result is waves that increase in radius and these waves are uniformly shaped and they travel outward in all horizontal directions on the waters surface from the center of where the water drop was dropped.
