Quote (card_sultan @ Aug 18 2017 12:17pm)
Unobstructed yes, but thinking light can travel for billions of light years is just an assumption and the basis for your entire misunderstanding, told to you on purpose to get you to not think.
No, it isn't an assumption. They use radiotelescopes, parallax variations and advanced mathematics to measure the amount of light degradation before it reaches us. We know it degrades because even in the vast expanses of space, there are trace molecules drifting which can scatter the light. If light didn't degrade, there are so many stars in the universe that even the night sky would be white.