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Old 04-12-2005, 02:48 AM  
chodadog
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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
A powerful telescope pointed at a object in space that is one light year away is viewing the state of that object as it appeared one year ago. The viewer has "traveled" to one year in the past of that object. To view further into the object's past requires moving the telescope further from the object; say two light years away. (yep that is a problem)
That's actually a pretty interesting thought. Assuming you had telescope powerful enough to look that far, and could travel a lightyear in a single hour, or day, or week, then you could watch history as it unfolds and see exactly what happened.

Limited only by a lack of technology. Nice theory. I like it. But isn't this just the theory of relativity?
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