“It took the light that long to get here, where we are now. If you could transcend time and space to go where it happened in an instant, there would be nothing at that location OR something that wasn’t there when it happened...”
Wouldn’t that mess up time travel too? If I got in my machine, and went back a week in time, would I end up where the Earth was a week ago? That’d be a bummer, Dude!
You have to transcend both TIME AND SPACE............else you will end up in a very cold and dark place............................