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The light doesn't go back.
by crayola 13y ago
The light doesn't go back.
- leokun 13y agoI don't see anywhere in my post where I suggest that it did. I think though you could use this device to at least outrun light and then use a telescope to look into the past.
- crayola 13y agoI mean – unless you have in mind some complicated relativistic effect, in which case my answer may be a bit naive, it feels a bit like you are overlooking the fact that, as you go back, you will kind of receive double your share of photons from the planet and play fast-forward on everything you missed on your way out. As I said, I suspect this is not how it would end up happening, as I remember reading somewhere some weird stuff about how the speed of photons hitting you was always the same regardless of your speed.. But that gets too weird for me to comprehend.