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(Correct me if I'm wrong as I am not a math expert.)
Time travel is .... impossible for all we know. But there is one thing we can do. And that's seeing things "in the past". But it's so subtle, so FAST, that our minds don't register it. For every meter an object is away, the more nanoseconds it takes to reach you. Here's a further explanation.
Light travels 2.998 x 10^8 m/s. (Just for the record, all of this is in scientific notation.) It takes light a whopping 499 seconds to reach the sun owing to the fact that the distance between Earth and the sun is around 1.496 x 10^11 meters. What does that mean? Well, if a civilization was to be established on the sun; it would take us eight MINUTES and thirty-one seconds to see them. If a couple was slow dancing on the sun, we would see that 8,3 minutes later. Which means that we can technically see into the past.
Let's say I'm standing five meters away from you and that I'm waving. It would take you 1.667 x 10^-8 seconds to see me waving but here's the thing; while your brain is busy registering everything, I already finished waving (1.667 x 10^-8 seconds ago). That would mean that you are SEEING THE PAST.
If there are any physicists/mathematicians that know more about the subject at hand, please tell me more! Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
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JUXIERUXIE
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Whenever we look up to the stars, we see the universe how it was hundreds of thousands - millions - or even billions of years ago. We see stars that died out just yesterday, stars that died when dinosaurs roamed, and stars that died before our moon was formed.
Incredible. If someone were to look up at the stars on a planet closer to them, would that mean it would speed up the entire "process"?
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