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Originally posted by Tsen
Basically, an event happening NOW, twenty light years away, will not influence me in the slightest for AT LEAST twenty years. So, even though that event happened now, for all points and purposes it won't happen for another twenty years, because I'd have no way of knowing it happened, feeling the influence of it happening (barring Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance'), or have any other way of inferring that something happened. Simply put: The event twenty light years away doesn't happen HERE for another twenty years. If you could travel beyond lightspeed and reach that area twenty light years away in only five years, you would, in essence, be travelling fifteen years back in time and discovering something that otherwise wouldn't have happened for fifteen more years.
Right, and if you came back to your original position going the same speed, you would be in the same place as where you started, only in the past.