Isn't it true that the further you are able to look into outer space you are observing earlier points in time?

Question

If you look towards the origin of The Big Bang then in theory you are looking back in time. So, if you turn 180 degrees, would you be looking into the future?

Answer 1

When you see light from a star that's, let's say, 100 light years away, you're seeing light that started on its journey 100 years ago. As a result, yes you are literally 'seeing' back in time.
But to look 100 years into the future....... In which direction do you look to see light that won't start on its journey for another 100 years? ☺

Doug

Answer 2

Yes! this is true because light takes time to travel, anything you see in the night sky has probably been traveling for thousand of millions of years in space. Therefore, the light that you see was created thousands of millions of years ago. But, looking 180 degrees different from where you were looking at would only mean, you're looking thousands of millions of years ago in a different direction. You wouldn't be able to see the future. Good luck!

Answer 3

the sunshine from distant galaxies comes here and that they detect it .or radio waves even if the case could be . it no longer as though they bypass a ways out into outer area . in the event that they did we'd have lots greater contemporary suggestion.

Answer 4

totally obvious

when you look into the sky you see the past
the light rays`s speed is not instance so you see what has happened dozen of dozens of dozens of years ago since every thing has a distance as especially in space where things are parsecs away so lo, han dy i am because i just told you the time machine!!!

Answer 5

no, because no matter what angle you are looking at, it has taken a long time for those photons/ radio waves to get here.
So the movie paycheck doesn't make sense, since they think of the universe as a sphere, which kinda is, but still