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JamesANicholson · **Re: Seeing Into the Past -** 04-14-2008, 05:35 AM

Welcome, KiGs,

That is a wonderful question--

And a Very difficult or at least open ended one at that.

I would also like to add to it, "What direction should we point our new look back device?" (telescope or whatever)

I don't personally buy into the Big Bang, though, so I am more comfortable with the notion of not ever being able to know the "beginning" point or even if that concept can be applied to the Universe. We see things go through cycles and so we have come to assign a beginning to an arbitrary, if somehow significant, point of the cycle and believe that we have proclaimed a truism. I think that this way of thinking is merely myopic (short sighted--being too close to it).

If there were a single big bang, we should be able to determine in which direction is was oriented and then be able to look both back to it and out away from it. Don't you think?

Regards, Aaron (My middle name)

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JamesANicholson Orange Belt Status: Offline Posts: 43 Thanks Given: 3 Thanked 12x in 9 Posts Join Date: Mar 2008 Rep Power: 3	Re: Seeing Into the Past - 04-14-2008, 05:35 AM Welcome, KiGs, That is a wonderful question-- And a Very difficult or at least open ended one at that. I would also like to add to it, "What direction should we point our new look back device?" (telescope or whatever) I don't personally buy into the Big Bang, though, so I am more comfortable with the notion of not ever being able to know the "beginning" point or even if that concept can be applied to the Universe. We see things go through cycles and so we have come to assign a beginning to an arbitrary, if somehow significant, point of the cycle and believe that we have proclaimed a truism. I think that this way of thinking is merely myopic (short sighted--being too close to it). If there were a single big bang, we should be able to determine in which direction is was oriented and then be able to look both back to it and out away from it. Don't you think? Regards, Aaron (My middle name)