Quote (joshd21 @ Aug 15 2012 10:23am)

Theoretically, when you look at yourself in a mirror, you are looking into the past. Fractions of a second, but that is not the point.

Is there any possible way you can increase the distance the light has to travel so when looking into the mirror you can noticably see that your looking into the past?

How is that possible? Light travels over 180,000 miles per second. There is no stretch of land or space that can give us this distance, or even telescopes to reach such distances.

But what if a series of mirrors were setup hundreds of miles away from each othere that reflected an image up to a distance of 90,000 miles, and then returned the image through the mirrors back to your starting location.

If this were theoretically done and set up, would you then be able to see a second into the past?

If so then could this be done on a nanoscale? Taking a large image, scaling it down, then reflecting the images over small distance trillions of times then scaling the image back to normal size which will produce an image that was happened seconds ago?

This is very far fetched but its something I thought when taking Physics in college. Never really looked into it.