The Oldest Light in the Universe

"Mark Earnest" wrote in message
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... 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


There is no such thing as "distance from where the Big Bang happened."
The Big Bang was the origin of the Universe as a whole. The present
Universe, and every place in it, originated in the Bang. The places
have got a lot further apart since then, but none of them has any special
status; they are _all_ "where the Big Bang happened."

As for "seeing" the Big Bang, if you mean detecting the radiation from
it, we did that decades ago. The expansion of the Universe since the
Bang has reduced the frequency of the radiation to something around
the frequency in your microwave oven, IIRC.