How to See Back in Time

By Elton Camp To time travel like Dr. Brown & Marty McFly Is impossible and we know the reason why Some speed limits we may exceed & curse But not the speed limit of the entire universe Nothing material may exceed the speed of light Which physical law puts time travel out of sight But what has happened in the past we may see You may be surprised at how easy that can be If I look at the house that lies across the street It takes time for the houses light my eye to meet But its so short that it doesnt matter anyhow For all practical purpose, I am seeing it now It is different when it is our Moon that I see It takes 1.3 seconds for that image to reach me What I actually am seeing is the moon of the past Light isnt instantaneous, although it sure is fast For objects farther away, the time lag is greater The suns light reaches me 8.3 minutes later So if the sun somehow has ceased to exist, For that period of time it wont even be missed The nearest star appears as it was 4.2 years ago If it is still the way it was, theres no way to know Light from Andromeda Galaxy gets here at last What we see existed 2.3 million years in the past So, if into the past, you should ever wish to see Look into the night sky and there the past will be It isnt only into the depths of space that we stare But it is the past that we see displayed right there

Andromeda as it was millions of years ago