Light and Infinite Speed?

[CNBA3]

I feel that there needs to be context for the nature of Infinite Speed especially for something that can “reach infinite distance in a finite amount of time” from what I researched at a glance, Light can travel infinite distance as a wave would not stop propagating unless it interacts with something, thoughts or clarifications?

I thought Light would decrease overtime due to energy loss or intensity of the light?

 

[CNBA3]

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[Chritin]

I feel that there needs to be context for the nature of Infinite Speed especially for something that can “reach infinite distance in a finite amount of time” from what I researched at a glance, Light can travel infinite distance as a wave would not stop propagating unless it interacts with something, thoughts or clarifications?

I thought Light would decrease overtime due to energy loss or intensity of the light?

To my understanding, light can't travel an infinite distance. It can travel an unlimited distance, assuming (like you said) it doesn't interact with something, but we have no way of knowing if it can actually travel an infinite distance because, well, we don't have an infinite distance to measure it in (nor a way to measure it if we did).

Light does lose energy over time, but this is due to an increase in wavelength or "redshifting". There's a few reasons as to why this happens (the expansion of the universe, the doppler effect, etc.), but I'm frankly not that much of a physicist to be able to answer explain either of them well.

 

[CNBA3]

To my understanding, light can't travel an infinite distance. It can travel an unlimited distance, assuming (like you said) it doesn't interact with something, but we have no way of knowing if it can actually travel an infinite distance because, well, we don't have an infinite distance to measure it in (nor a way to measure it if we did).

Light does lose energy over time, but this is due to an increase in wavelength or "redshifting". There's a few reasons as to why this happens (the expansion of the universe, the doppler effect, etc.), but I'm frankly not that much of a physicist to be able to answer explain either of them well.

Honestly that makes sense