How To See Back In Time - Science, Not Science Fiction

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 house’s light my eye to meet But it’s so short that it doesn’t 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 isn’t instantaneous, although it sure is fast For objects farther away, the time lag is greater The sun’s light reaches me 8.3 minutes later So if the sun somehow has ceased to exist, For that period of time it won’t even be missed The nearest star appears as it was 4.2 years ago If it is still the way it was, there’s 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 isn’t only into the depths of space that we stare But it is the past that we see displayed right there