A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past

[hunter]

3. I figure if you could go anyplace or anytime in the universe by some magic (which you can't)...

... it looks pretty much the same as you see it now. The "past" looks the way it does from our perspective because that's the way it has to look by our interpretation of time/space. If "time travel" and "faster-than-light" travel are impossible in this universe (they are the same impossible thing in my opinion) then we can only see the stuff that is relevant to our own situation in the universe and all that relevant stuff seems to condense down to that single point we call the "Big Bang." That doesn't necessarily have to reflect the actual nature of the universe, if there is any, it's just appearances. The universe only looks 13.78 billion years old from where we are fixed. That's the only frame we can observe.

When I'm not wandering off like a crazy man with my own speculations, I'm rather fond of John G. Cramer's transactional interpretation. He explains the "spooky action at a distance" of quantum physics with waves that travel backwards in time.