Looking Back in Spacetime ???

The first flash of light from the BB lasted 300,000 years(imperial
thinking) It flashed by our area of space when our solar system(Earth
and Sun) had yet to form. We have lousy telescopes that can only see
back light that has left a galaxy 14 billion years ago. Redshift is no
good for really great distances Go figure Bert

Well I should not say our telescopes in this spacetime are lousy. The
evolvement of glass(mirrors ) has just about reached its limit for light
photons. To reach out and get closer to my universe of 22 billion LY we
must search for "radio photons" Virtually all observatories use CCDs
to capture data. These I think are working just like what is in digital
cameras that turn images into digital data. We now must go with radio
observatories, It is wonderful that these individual radio dishes can be
combined(using "interferometry") to make for larger effective collecting
areas. I'm thinking about the VLA in New Mexico It is nice that this
large array of 27 radio dishes can effectively cover a baseline up to
several miles wide. I like that because I think the universe is even
bigger than I think it is. Bert

"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message
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The first flash of light from the BB lasted 300,000 years(imperial
thinking) It flashed by our area of space when our solar system(Earth
and Sun) had yet to form. We have lousy telescopes that can only see
back light that has left a galaxy 14 billion years ago. Redshift is no
good for really great distances Go figure Bert

It was in our area of space,
as it was in all areas of space.
It never "went by".
It's still here, and everywhere else,
radiating on, but now at a lower frequency.
If you want to detect it with a telescope,
use a radio telescope, not an optical one.

It isn't? Astronomers still use it, BEERTbrain! To me that means
there must be something wrong with YOU!

Saul Levy


On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:23:47 -0400, (G=EMC^2
Glazier) wrote:

The first flash of light from the BB lasted 300,000 years(imperial
thinking) It flashed by our area of space when our solar system(Earth
and Sun) had yet to form. We have lousy telescopes that can only see
back light that has left a galaxy 14 billion years ago. Redshift is no
good for really great distances Go figure Bert