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Ooooh, nerd time!

If you are moving faster than the speed of light, you are perceiving whatever you are moving away from in reverse, because the light you are seeing was generated before when you left. (you are passing into light that is older than the light you started with). In terms of space-time, you would then be going backwards in time, if your point of reference for time was the Earth (and hint, given that we have all these nuanced time thingamajigs, it is)




If you are moving faster than the speed of light, our understanding of physics is wrong and we can't make any sensible predictions.




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