We know that if we look far enough into space, we can look into past, then why can't we see the Big Bang?

Question

First, you can't say the Big Bang is not bright enough - there shouldn't be anything brighter than that; second, you can't say it's too far for the light to travel to us - the universe is where light can reach since the Bang, and we're not on the edge of the universe.

If the universe is 15b years old, that means the Big Bang is 15b light years away. There should just be enough of time for the Bang light to reach us even though we're on the farthest edge from the center of the universe. If we're not that far, there is even less reason not to see it - we only have to look at an area closer to us, or a time less farther in the past. We are looking for the light, so nothing needs to travel faster than it.

Let me repeat, if we look far enough, we look long enough into the past. And if we look into the past, we look at the event itself, not the remnant of the event. If you think we're only looking at the remnant of the event, it's because you're thinking about something not far enough.

Answer 1

I am sure with the right kind of drugs you can do anything right?

Answer 2

First of all we are not on the edge of the universe because there is no edge of the universe. The idea behind looking out into space and seeing the past is this: everything emits a certain amount of radiation (radioactivity/light) and we want to be or see far enough out there to catch these waves as they are reflected back to us from whatever they bounced off of. For example, when the Big Bang happened the light and radio waves hit and bounced off our moon in an instant. And now it's too late for us to see it. But Waaaaayyyyyy further out we can hope to catch waves on their return journey. That's why the Hubble is so important. Because it will (hopefully) go outside the clutter and interference of our solar system and get a better 'view'.

Answer 3

The universe is not that linear. We do not look into the past, we are seeing light from the past. Anyway, for us to see the big bang we would have to be father away from that point, in light years, than the age of the universe. If the universe is 15 billion years old we would have to be 15 billion light years from the point of the big bang. Since we are less than that, the light from that event is way past us. I think it may be imposable to find the point of the big bang as well.

Answer 4

when we look into space we are seeing events ( star explosions etc) and items (stars) that happened in the past, because it takes thousands if not millions or billions of years for that light to reach us.

if we view a nebula that is 3,000 light years away, then we are vieing something from 3000 years ago.

As for the big bang, electromagnetic energy decreases in intesity of time and distance. There is remnants of the big bang all around us called background microwaves. these were detected by bell labs in the 60's as static sound coming from all directions and confirmed more recently by satellites that detect this form of energy, we cant see it, but to this equipment all of space is lit up with a uniform glow

Answer 5

Actually the microwave background radiation is from a tick after the big bang. We can't see the big bang because, supposedly, for a short amount of time known as inflation, things moved faster than the speed of light. We can't see before that.

Answer 6

Not long after the big bang the universe became ionized and was plasma-like, after that came an era called recombination which is when the universe became "transparent".
During recombination elementary particles (protons, neutrons and electrons) combined to form hydrogen and later helium, these combined to form the first stars and galaxies.
The transition between the ionized and non-inoized is where the Cosmic Microwave Background somes from, not the big bang.

Answer 7

We can look deep into space but we can't look quicker than the speed of light. In order to see the big bang we would have to go faster than the speed of light to catch it in order to see it.

Maybe In due time we will all see the big bang. Space is finite and the light from the big bang will wrap around and end up where it started and do it over again.

Answer 8

for one thing, we are actually able to "see" the Big Bang. radiation currently present in space are remnants of the effects of the Big Bang explosion.

as for the visual "seeing", its just too long ago, i presume. but light waves and the cosmic radiation are both forms of radiation, its just that the intensity of these radiation may have waned over the last what, billions of years? if we take this into consideration, it is highly probable that the intensity of the light spectrum may be too weak now to observe.

besides, what observable cosmic radiation remains in space now, if i'm not mistaken, all exhibit extremely long wavelengths. if i remember my physics class lessons correctly, the longer the wavelength, the longer it can endure before losing too much of its inherent energy, because they are able to travel farther with less energy.

Answer 9

When the big bang happened, was there a light ? To procure light, you need atoms. Light is being produced by electrons' changing orbitals.
So there was no atom,not even proton or neutron when big bang happened so there was no light. And if there is no light to travel, what do you expect to see now ?

Answer 10

too long ago...and considering that we all started from one point then its easy to assume that any light that would have been visible would have had to travel a relatively short distance....considering we all started from one point and flashed outwards...we wouldnt have been very far away from the epicenter and all the remaining light would have been from left over energy and particles (thats us)

and technically speaking you see the big bang affects all around you...looking at you in the computer...or in the mirror or down at your hands...

so if you want to get wierd then yes we can see the big bang and we still see the big bang its just organized...

but there are still trace amounts of the big bang...white noise residual affects from the bang...

Answer 11

You got a .45?
Where WAS the "bang?"
We are NEAR CENTER to the WHOLE UNIVERSE! If there was a BANG! I think I woulldda heard it!! There was one last night in fact! Cherry Bombs!!