Theoretically, a telescope is what you want for this
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One that projects an image in real time from an infinitely-adjustable location and distance, that can see around objects, and can be relocated instantaneously. Also, it must be able to focus and track on an infinitesimal scale. Finally, it must be able to both withstand any environment and escape black holes.
To name it anything other than The Eye of God would do it disservice.
I'm 100% on board with this! Although, full disclosure, I have recently come to the realization that I carry trauma from my childhood and that I survived in large part because I was able to block out so much. So I'd take a chronoscope only with very careful, intentional usage. But, it would be so amazing to get to see, from the perspective of present-day me, what went on back then!
That might be interesting for a while.
Generally speaking, I don’t really look back very much. Going forward is more like my thing. I feel like looking back might be boring, depressing or otherwise useless. Maybe I’m just escaping my past, who knows.
That's called keeping a diary.
Jokes aside, all you'd need for this is one powerful telescope and FTL.
I hate my younger self for not keeping one.
But then again, my shitty older brother would've read it so... yeah... mom also love to do helicopter parent things...
I find time viewing interesting for thought experiments in part because time is intertwined with space. We are spinning around the center of the Earth, which is orbiting the sun, which is orbiting the galactic core. A time-only viewing machine that views past events at our present location will pretty much only observe the vacuum of space.
I mean that's why you also use a telescope too xD
The Chrono-tele-scope