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wolfiewolfie
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It seems after a simple google search I'm not the first to come up with this theory. http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-61837.html
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wolfiewolfie
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I thought this was pretty cool "Think about it - the speed of photons (light) is finite. It is 299,792,458 m/s. Now, imagine you were standing just 1 metre away from someone, and you turned to look at them. What you see is photons that have been fired from a "light source", travelled between the light source and that person, hit that person, then bounced off that person and travelled between him and you.
Now, light travels at 299,792,458 m/s. The minimum distance from him to you is 1 m. To get the time it takes to travel x metres at v metres per second, you do t = x ÷ v. 1 ÷ 299,792,458 is 3.33564095 × 10^(-9), or roughly 3.34 ns.
So even when you're looking at an object that is only a metre away, you're still looking around three nanoseconds into the past. Cool, huh?"
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wolfiewolfie
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So from what I understand using the above logic is the further away an object is that you are viewing, the further into the past you are looking. So in order to look further into the past you must increase the distance the light has to travel (hence my original post using the mirror to look at ourselves whilst making the light travel a huge distance)
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Giftofdeprivation
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Oh, I'm not offended man, thanks. I'm just observing the fact that this isn't even a half baked idea...
How long does it take for the information to travel? Oh, end of discussion. Zzzzzzzz
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wolfiewolfie
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Giftofdeprivation said: Oh, I'm not offended man, thanks. I'm just observing the fact that this isn't even a half baked idea...
How long does it take for the information to travel? Oh, end of discussion. Zzzzzzzz
Sorry, I just have these kind of ideas all the time and my friends aren't open minded enough to explore them with me. Any criticism is better than wondering if i could be right or wrong That's why I'm slowly falling in love with this forum :P
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wolfiewolfie
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And the discussion is mainly about possibly being able to see into the past... i think some people are missing the point.
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Giftofdeprivation
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Discussion?
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wolfiewolfie
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*me attempting to create a discussion over an idea that I now realise is more flawed than I initially thought
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Arctic W. Fox

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If you had a mirror two LY away, you would see 4 years into the past - your idea is correct.
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If you had a beamsplitter;
1) that sent one part of Earth's light through the splitter, then bouncing off the mirror (one more LY away) at 180° back through the splitter and returning to Earth...
2) and the other part of that light reflected off the splitter and sent to another mirror 1.5 LY away, then bouncing off at 180° back to the splitter, reflected and merged, and sent back to earth...
What would you see in the telescope on Earth?
Same light, taking two different distances and returning to the exact same point.
And you're not changing Time, you're changing the distance that light travels which changes the perception of Time traveled.
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wolfiewolfie
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Arctic W. Fox said: If you had a mirror two LY away, you would see 4 years into the past - your idea is correct.
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If you had a beamsplitter;
1) that sent one part of Earth's light through the splitter, then bouncing off the mirror (one more LY away) at 180° back through the splitter and returning to Earth...
2) and the other part of that light reflected off the splitter and sent to another mirror 1.5 LY away, then bouncing off at 180° back to the splitter, reflected and merged, and sent back to earth...
What would you see in the telescope on Earth?
Same light, taking two different distances and returning to the exact same point.
And you're not changing Time, you're changing the distance that light travels which changes the perception of Time traveled.
Honestly I have no idea how to answer that haha which is what I love
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wolfiewolfie
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So if you were to stand at one end of a 1 mile long object, so you can see the whole thing, you would be observing the closest part of the object lets say 5 nanoseconds in the past and the furtherest part of the object (pure example) 20 nanoseconds in the past. Theoretically viewing different parts of the same object at different points in time, at the same time. Or am i just confusing myself now :/
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wolfiewolfie
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wolfiewolfie said: So if you were to stand at one end of a 1 mile long object, so you can see the whole thing, you would be observing the closest part of the object lets say 5 nanoseconds in the past and the furtherest part of the object (pure example) 20 nanoseconds in the past. Theoretically viewing different parts of the same object at different points in time, at the same time. Or am i just confusing myself now :/
....although, prove me wrong?
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Arctic W. Fox

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wolfiewolfie said: So if you were to stand at one end of a 1 mile long object, so you can see the whole thing, you would be observing the closest part of the object lets say 5 nanoseconds in the past and the furtherest part of the object (pure example) 20 nanoseconds in the past. Theoretically viewing different parts of the same object at different points in time, at the same time. Or am i just confusing myself now :/
This thinking is correct (according to current theories). It's probably not measurable at all (for only a mile-long object), but if the object was 10 LY long, the light from the edge of the object closest to you would be current, while the object's other end would be light sent ten years ago.
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wolfiewolfie
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So you could classify a 3d object as something that produces different timeframes of light, whereas a 2d object produces a single timeframe of light?
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wolfiewolfie
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....a 1d object would produce no timeframe of light and a 4d object would produce...?
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wolfiewolfie
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Maybe a 4d object produces different timeframes of different timeframes of light? O.O or I'm too baked
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Giftofdeprivation
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I think a mod needs to intervene here. You should have to sit on your hands for eighteen hours after these doozies.
Here's a simple idea that will fuck with you: gravity is strongest at the source and becomes weaker, the further you go. Therefore, if you could see gravity, each planet would look like a light bulb, radiating outward, endlessly fading across the universe.
It's the nature of gradients. You seem new to them. That's kinda how time and causality works, too (via your "discussion"), but it's not magical/mystical, it's just the nature of four dimensions and entropy.
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I wanna feed this guy a bunch of MXE, give him a global sticky and see what he can do.
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wolfiewolfie
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...have I done something wrong here?
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Arctic W. Fox

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wolfiewolfie said: Maybe a 4d object produces different timeframes of different timeframes of light? O.O or I'm too baked 
You're too baked. lol
Seriously, these are really awesome questions to be asking. I would suggest, though, to take a read through Wikipedia on some of these topics - you'll easily get a better understanding of what you're asking and probably come up with a lot more questions for which you can wiki-search them as well.
If getting baked makes you think like this, cook on, brotha. lol
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Giftofdeprivation said: I wanna feed this guy a bunch of MXE, give him a global sticky and see what he can do.
*What he said!
Another prism thought to melt your brains:
 What would you see if different colours of light took different distanced paths and were reflected back, merged, and sent to their original location?
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