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To: dhs12345
If we are viewing the light, from the center of the universe from a big-bang event that happened billions of years ago,

We're not seeing the big bang itself. What we can see is microwave background radiation, which can be thought of as the afterglow from the Big Bang.

22 posted on 04/01/2006 8:14:56 PM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker

But microwave is the same and light isn't it -- em wave? Visible light, microwave -- same thing just different wavelength. Both travel at the same speed -- c.


26 posted on 04/01/2006 8:22:32 PM PST by dhs12345
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