[airborne]

So maybe we can’t travel in time but could we conceivably see backwards (maybe even forward) in time?

[maro]

It’s important to distinguish science from science fiction.

[LibWhacker]

I don’t know about forward in time, but like he says, this will give us a way to look back at the first moments of creation, which no form of electromagnetic radiation could possibly achieve.

I think the most exciting thing, which he kind of downplays actually, is that EVERY time astronomers open a new window on the universe, they discover new, unexpected, mind-blowing things going on out there. What will it be this time? We can’t even guess.

[katana]

You are looking far back in time whenever you peer at the night sky. Then again, anything you can observe has already happened. Seeing forward? That's Hari Seldon's probabilistic territory, like watching two trains approach each other on the same set of rails or watching the threads break on the bomber's coat sleeve in Hitchcock's Saboteur.