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Originally Posted by KiGs Well I guess the question would be what would we see if we looked over 13.7billion light years away.. or however old the universe is. Could we see a point before the universe was formed, and if we couldn't what would stop us from seeing into that distance?

We can certainly, in principle, look further than a distance of 13.7 billion light years, even if the universe is 13.7 billion years old, since that bound on the size is only valid for flat space. However we cannot, even in principle, look to a distance greater than the size of the (observable) universe, simply by definition. To see something we need photons to be transmitted from the object to our telescope. Thus we can only see something if there was enough time for the photons to travel the distance between us and the object. The horizon of the observable universe gives us a bound on this.

There are also other problems like the fact that photons must be decoupled and free to be emitted in order for us to have any chance of seeing anything from that specific time. This hasn't always been the case, and in fact the very early universe was opaque, since photons were bound to the matter. The first epoch where the two decouple is sometimes called last scattering, or more commonly known as the time when the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation was produced. Anyway, this is the topic for another thread!

Well, I hope I've answered your question, I doubt it though, but I tried!