One of the profound goofs of mankind is reconizing a past that never existed in the sense we veiw it, rather that be philosophical or in relativity in any other dogma.
To me the past is nothing more then a word that should be made into a letter followed by a dot, P.A.S.T. at least now we can get a sense of its true meaning,
"the Present At Said Time" thats all the past ever was or will be. even if we say History and what we learned from it, we are only saying we we gained at that present, at said time. Any lesson that followed from that was from that present and it movement forward from that point.
In medicine lets say Dr. Falk discoveres penicillen in the year 1932 (whatever)
this discoverey was made in that present of whatever day year 1932, advances in penicillen that came after his discovery only progressed from that present in which he frist discovered it, so the Past as we now relate to it didnt exist.
The great fallacy is to recognize a past period, but since it easily fits in our persepective of time and travel, (thanks to the big mr E) we know see it as a viable part of our existence and i hate to be the one to tell you this but its not.
If a Light from a big bang traveled in the past and can still be seen today presently, then perhaps our concept of travel is off too. whatever happened that brought us into being was a present at that time, and we now are nothing more then a progression of that present today, right now.
So maybe Light dont really travel but merely energizes a area in its influence and somehow we know look into the past to explain our present, when in truth all we have is now and a hope for tomorrow.
Work with What we have Now