Can we see human history through a telescope?

In the same way every time we look at the stars we see the past of the universe. Can we see our history placing a extremely powerful telescope pointing towards the earth an arbitrary number of light years away?

I know that would require faster than light travel, but maybe we could shortcut that problem if those light waves where somehow bouncing back, perhaps in a tiny shiny cristal in the surface of some distant asteroid or some other physic phenomenon making us possible to take an autophoto, google earth style.

What I'm asking is, is the human complete history vividly recorded in lightwaves travelling through the universe?

If so, do you think we would someday have that information back? Or is totally lost forever?

 

Btw this wasn't my question I just want to know the answer.

 

1. yes
2. your best bet is gravitational refraction, unfortunately, there is a great deal of distortion, and you only get a certain perspective\angle, and you have a certain amount of energy loss at range, we can only see bright shit, so we couldn't pick up earth, but, there are a VERY few, unrecordable particles that do bely earths history.

 

I'm an idiot so I know nothing about any of this...but some sort of omniscient supercomputer that can trace history backwards using mathematics?

 

the only problem with that is there are a virtually infinite number of ways we could have gotten here. (here being a single sliver, a snapshot of time)

fortunately, we could put in a lot of slivers

and that could help, but not do everything.

 

What is a sliver?

I don't know...I just thought that it could work as long as time and matter follow some sort of linear, easily traceable line, which they probably don't.

 

Who would program that monster?

 

?/ eh what happened there. Oh well. Can't be arsed to type it again.

 

a sliver is instantaneous data
no vectors
just a snapshot.

 

It would program itself. Its knowledge would be able to proliferate itself, much like collective human knowledge but instead an increasingly unified, efficient single consciousness. It would be the product of computers that were programmed to think. Then it would probably kill us.

 

I understand a little better now. Yes, part of my thinking would be that several slivers (or snapshots of slivers) would be utilized, as many of them as possible, the data then correlated to find patterns, the patterns used to find more data, which is then correlated and so on and so on, until the computer is god and consumes the entire universe.

 

Given the right coding, it would work much more efficiently than we do, simply because we have a lot of time being wasted by people not having information properly cross referenced.

 

As well as having other pastimes not related to the aquisition of truth. Ha ha, dumb computers and their single minded practicality.

 

woo hoo skynet.

we just need EMP near all the systems that can handle it's functions.

 

I really doubt machines would ever feel the need to destroy humans. The "need" or "desire" to survive is a quality of animals. Purely logical beings would probably be indifferent to living or dying, hence why we have nothing to worry about except people.

 

Great... what about the people who are behind those machines? Sure, the machines won't care one way or another about us living or dying, they'll just indifferently kill us at someones orders...

lol

 

You'd probably have to use Asimov's PsychoHistorians ~ experts that understand human nature and can extropolate crises and disasters, intuitively AND by historical facts in evidence, using a super-computer with AI.

Right now, we don't have enough of the Empaths that could be schooled for this task.

 

No, our sun is too bright to see Earth (clearly) from such a distance especially assuming if there was only one telescope on the job. Definitely see old Earth but I doubt we could track human history that way. We are closer to making a time machine than sending high tech binoculars thousands of light years into space anyways, so we're in luck

 

Exactly. Which is why we all need to start building robots of our own.

 

Well, in that case, mine is going to be a 100 ton battletech style one lol