Quote (ClanBK @ Sun, May 31 2009, 03:00am)
The image of it hasn't traveled to us. If we were to approach the speed of light and head in that direction, the image would be moving much more rapidly, and you'd be watching things unfold. However, you'd still end there in the present. You're not jumping in time, you're simply adjusting the image of what you see lightyears away. It's not like you could travel to that point, then travel back to the earth to the exact point when you left, or before that.
ClanBK, there is a past and a present and a future. If any of you guys read the first few posts of this thread, or knew anything about what Einstein did -- its that relativity proves that time is NOT constant, its rate varies. The faster you go, the more time dialates, meaning if you're in a spaceship traveling close to the speed of light -- time for you moves VERY slowly compared to a person on earth. This has been mathematically PROVED and experimentally PROVED as well. Scientists have put clocks in spaceships and the clocks ran at a slower rate than those on Earth exactly as per Einstein's equations.
In modern physics, you have to realize that time is not constant, length is not constant, mass is not constant. And it seems abstract and just plain weird, but the fact is that it makes A LOT of sense once you understand it.