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To: neverdem

If nothing can move FTL and everything started in the same place, how can we look ‘back’ and see the light from the Big Bang? We must have moved faster than the light in order to be ‘in front’ of it.


8 posted on 03/24/2013 2:22:11 AM PDT by Richard Brandon Abroad (Hey people, it's different over here. Different people, money ... and news.)
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To: Richard Brandon Abroad
"...how can we look ‘back’ and see the light from the Big Bang?  We must have moved faster than the light in order to be ‘in front’..."

Remember that your looking far away doesn't mean that you're far away, it means your eyes are getting light from there that took a while to travel to you. 

We're just now finally receiving really old light (think of the USPS) and it's showing us how things looked like a long time ago.  Something else is that back then the universe was smaller.  Now I know that things are supposed to look smaller when they're farther away, but super far distances means we're looking at stuff that's actually small because the entire universe was small back then.

That picture is what the big bang looked like, as seen from the inside.

12 posted on 03/24/2013 6:04:06 AM PDT by expat_panama
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