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The Oldest Light in the Universe

by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and ScienceIQ.com

"A NASA satellite has captured the sharpest-ever picture of the
afterglow of the big bang. The image contains such stunning detail
that
it may be one of the most important scientific results of recent
years.
Scientists used NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) to
capture the new cosmic portrait, which reveals the afterglow of the
big
bang, a.k.a. the cosmic microwave background. One of the biggest
surprises revealed in the data is the first generation of stars to
shine in the universe first ignited only 200 million years after the
big bang, much earlier than many scientists had expected. In
addition,
the new portrait precisely pegs the age of the universe at 13.7
billion
years, with a remarkably small one percent margin of error. The WMAP
team found that the big bang and Inflation theories continue to ring
true."

http://www.physlink.com/


So now, with the Hubbell, we can almost see the Big Bang?
So what exactly is stopping us, why can't we in fact see it?
If we could see it, it sure would solve a lot of arguments,
and answer a lot of questions.

Maybe we have to be at just the right distance from where the Big Bang
happened, so that the light can have all of those billions of years to
get to us?

Mark

I am still confused about seeing these images from the past. Take the
BB,
for instance. It's image has been traveling radially at the speed of
light ever since it happened. Shortly after the BB, physical matter
started to slow down and began to clump together, thus further slowing
down. Along the way, about 8 billion years later, Earth formed. By my
estimation, the image of the BB has traveled way beyond the Earth, the
edge of the visible Universe, even and is lost forever, at least as a
pictorial visual.

Considering this, something is very wrong here. If we are almost seeing
the
Big Bang, then there should be very little universe on the opposite side
of
us from the direction of those ancient galaxies.

Why would you say that.

The place that the Big Bang is perceivable has to be traveling outward from
the very center of the universe as a giant expanding shell, at the speed of
light. And we say nothing can go faster than that speed. So if galaxies
are traveling faster than the place where the Big Bang is observable,
galaxies have to be traveling faster than light.

Or at least faster than what we currently perceive as light speed.