Real life observational time travel

In many of the descriptions of Rome's Revolution, I discuss the concept of legal time travel. This is not such a bizarre thought. We have examples of this right in front of us. The Hubble Space Telescope had an instrument called the Ultra Deep Field imager but it was later upgraded to the eXtreme Deep Field imager. It was able to capture and focus on photons that were emitted only 50 million years after the Big Bang.

This is taken directly from NASA's eXtreme Deep Field web page so I take no credit for it. Here is what they say:
The universe is 13.7 billion years old, and the XDF reveals galaxies that span back 13.2 billion years in time. Most of the galaxies in the XDF are seen when they were young, small, and growing, often violently as they collided and merged together. The early universe was a time of dramatic birth for galaxies containing brilliant blue stars extraordinarily brighter than our sun. The light from those past events is just arriving at Earth now, and so the XDF is a "time tunnel into the distant past." The youngest galaxy found in the XDF existed just 450 million years after the universe's birth in the big bang.
Take a look at these images.





This is true observational time travel that exists now. Mind-blowing, isn't it? P.S. In my opinion, this destroys the validity of the Big Bang Theory. I mean, how could such beautiful and organized galaxies coalesce in just 500 million years? I'll leave that for others to decide.
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Published on October 07, 2013 04:32 Tags: action, adventure, ftl, science-fiction, space-travel, vuduri
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message 1: by Tripp (new)

Tripp Moultrie What's even more mind blowing is now that we're finding Earth-like planets where life might actually exist, the same principal applies. We would be seeing the planet as it was, not as it is. Just like if aliens were watching us from 100 light years away, they would see humans at the dawn of the industrial era. Pretty crazy right?


message 2: by Michael (new)

Michael Brachman Thanks for your thoughtful comments. The whole basis of Rome's Revolution, the novel, is built upon the concept that if you can travel faster than light, you can outrun light waves, turn around, look back and basically "see" into the past - hence the title of the article Observational Time Travel.


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