Civ, have a question regarding a point (in space) approximately three thousand light years away and what the time-line would possibly be here on Earth if one were to be approximately three thousand light years away. Which time-line would exist at the point three thousand light years away; the current Earth time-line or the three thousand years ago time-line or would probably both time-lines exist?
If one could make out the small details from that distance, it would be worth developing FTL travel. That’s probably optimistic though, for at least two reasons. ;’) We s ee what the stars were doing years (generally many, many years) after the events happen, but are unaware of what is going on there right now. Same goes for Earth — what’s happening now is what’s happening now.
From at least one philosophical perspective, time is meaningless, and not in the quantum mechanical sense.
You can know where you are, or how fast you are traveling...but not both for any given moment.
...sounds like a pregnant pause!