Hi Danny,
That's a cool idea, but it wouldn't work as you've imagined it. If we were created from the elements forged in a star we see in the night sky, then those elements would have to have traveled faster than the speed of light to reach the earth, form us, and then wait for the light from the star to arrive.
So, we can't see our past by this method. It's possible that some of the earth was forged in a star which is still alive today, but we when we look at the sky, we will necessarily see the star long after it created the atoms which made it to what we now call earth.
David Schmid
(published on 08/12/2013)
