Would we be able to see our past if...

[darkxshade]

We had a really powerful macro-ish telescope/telerecorder and were able to instantly teleport it ~2000 light years away from Earth and able to send and receive data from it?

 

[Newbian]

Great...lead the Borg to us.

 

[lxskllr]

You would, but that would assume faster than light travel. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I don't think current science supports it.

 

[SKORPI0]

Interesting Sci-Fi book I read a few years back... The Light of Other Days

The Light of Other Days is a 2000 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, which explores the development of wormhole technology to the point where information can be passed instantaneously between points in the space-time continuum

 

[Cuda1447]

So we place a telecorder 2000 light years away, have it record the past up to the current date and send it back. But even if the information sent back to us is at light speed, we won't receive it for.... 2000 years!!! That sucks

 

[darkxshade]

So we place a telecorder 2000 light years away, have it record the past up to the current date and send it back. But even if the information sent back to us is at light speed, we won't receive it for.... 2000 years!!! That sucks

OR we could stream it back so that we would be watching our past in real time?

 

[lxskllr]

OR we could stream it back so that we would be watching our past in real time?

That's still assuming faster than light travel.