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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.

I'm not sure I understand your question. CMB does travel at the speed of light, and it is slowly dissipating -- think of it as the left over heat of the "explosion" (to use a rather inadequate analogy).

30 posted on 04/01/2006 8:41:36 PM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)

We are viewing an event that happened at the beginning of the Universe. We are seeing em waves from this event. These em waves have been traveling across the universe for billions of years (since beginning of the universe) and billions of light years.

This means the matter in our solar system, that originated from the big-bang and event that the above em wave was produced, arrived at this location before the em wave.

Think you are saying: we are seeing the afterglow of an event and not actually the event itself. Still it would have to be a race in which you have to move a huge amount of matter across space in a very short period of time (relatively speaking).