What about the likelyhood that light from celesteral bodies traveling millions and billions of years to earth that we finally see probably no longer exist. Does that mean we are studying things that are no longer there?
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Whether it does or not, how when and where would we possibly end up Can we look at the beginning of the universe?
Because, time-space was UNFOLDING in the beginning (and perhaps still),
so how can this be?
Or am I remembering the basic concept of 'looking into the past' wrong?
The further we see, the more into the past, no?
Therefor, if we were somehow able to see to a very distant point, this would mean a point near the beginning of existence hence when time-space was just tiny and unfolding.
The oldest light we can see is the cosmic microwave background radiation, which was formed when the universe was several hundred thousand years old.
g__day wrote:Well the universe wasn't transparent until 300,000 years after the Big Bang. So when you say looking do you infer measuring visible e-m radiation or radio / gamma radiation?
COBE can measure the remants of the BB itself.
g-day, are you, by any chance, an astronomer? I once knew an astronomer whose telescope facility was out in the boonies. We had wonderful conversations and I learned so much from her.
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