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The past may be gone from a linear time point of view Ron, but you can still see it every time you look towards a distant planet or star. That glow or twinkle you are seeing right now actually happened hundreds or thousands of years ago. Some of the stars you are looking at right now may no longer even exist - they may have gone supernova and disappeared years, even centuries ago, but the light from that event just hasn't reached us yet. So we see the star now as it was when the light hitting the back of our retinas left its surface many, many years ago.

If someone on a planet a two thousand and nine light years away had a scope that could see the surface of the earth, they could watch in real time - right now - the events leading up to the crucifiction of Christ.

And - if you look back towards earth as you accelerate away from it faster than the speed of light, you will most certainly see events "roll backwards" as you overtake the light leaving the earth at normal lightspeed.