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Old September 26th 06, 11:31 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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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.


Ok, so now we can see something that happened 200 million years after the
big bang, seems like we are getting very close to seeing the big bang.
My question is will it really be the big bang, would that not imply that
since we can observe past events, we should be able to go back in time, if
we find something faster than light.


Yes, if we could somehow "phase into" the light from all those billions of
years ago, maybe we could somehow travel into the past.

We would have to become what we perceive somehow.
Not sure whether that would be a more physical or more spiritual experience.



 




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