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Seeing Into the Past - 04-14-2008, 04:58 AM

First I'll explain the background of my question. With the use of telescopes and other systems we can look at objects that are very far away, far enough away so that we can see how they were in the past. This is because we are observing the light that is traveling to us, so things that are many light years away will take years to reach our vision. We have observed events in space such as a supernova that occurred hundreds of thousands of years ago and we have also devised machinery to look into the very beginnings of the galaxy. The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe was a project by NASA where they took temperature driven pictures of the universe 13 some odd billion years ago. My question is this.

If we had the technology to look far enough away to the time before the galaxy was created, what would we see?

I was wondering about this earlier today and I haven't the knowledge to answer it. I have some ideas but I'll wait to post them, just in case the answer is really simple and I'm just asking silly questions.



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