it takes billions of light years for the light of a blinking star to reach us. it takes billions of light years for that star to come into existence for us. in the present we are seeing the past. likewise, it will take a long time for the light from the earth to reach that star. by using this timewarp, we can, one day, observe the earth from different distances, and see what was happening on the earth at any given point in our history.
so don't look back,
look forward.
only then
will the past be revealed to us.
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this is what she says. some sentences are direct quotes, others paraphrases. i think it's a pretty cool idea, though. the fact that focusing on the past is fruitless. i'm not sure if looking forward is really any more fruitful than looking at the past, but it does seem that this "philosophy" describes how the past, the present, and the future are all occurring simultaneously.
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