Observing The Creation Of The Earth
First off, that'd make a good album title. Wouldn't fit the rock opera, but I like it.
Anyway, as most of us know, because space is enormously enormous, there's a significant time delay, often measured in lightyears, though I believe lightmonths, lightweeks, and so on are just as legitimate, for even light to reach things, such as, for example, the eight minutes between us and Sol(If it blew up, we wouldn't know for almost ten minutes. We also would be unaffected for that time since we'd be getting the light from when it was alive.). Assuming you have faster-than-light technology for the sake of the argument, couldn't you in-theory fly out to where the light reflecting off the earth has not reached yet, then slowly fly back towards the earth, recording it as you go, accurately ascertaining the history of the earth? Granted you'd have to have a very powerful camera to observe society and all that, but it could be done if the futurehumans in question have faster-than-light engines, and even if they don't, they could still learn how the earth was made.
Anyone who actually knows scientific stuff better than me willing to clarify this?
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