English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português 繁體中文 Bahasa Indonesia Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย
All categories

5 answers

One day I believe we will look so far into Space that we will see this giant eye............................ looking into our Test-Tube.

2007-05-08 05:51:42 · answer #1 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0 0

The short answer is "no". This has nothing to do with any religous perspective - it is simply the result of what you see when you look through a telescope.
The Universe is expanding all the time at phenomenal speed. Actually, things aren't moving - instead the actual fabric of the Universe is expanding - similar to stretching a rubber sheet indefinitely. Stars and other sky objects are like specks of dust on the sheet that get pulled away from each other as the Universe expands.
If you go in the opposite direction, when the sheet shrinks (going back in time), it gets to a spot at which it ceases to exist. This is the beginning of the Universe and because the Universe starts as this spot only the location of the origin of the Universe is everywhere because that spot was originally everywhere before it expanded and everything came from it.
When you look with your telescope you see light from a variety of distances away. The further away you look, then effectively the further back in time you look because light has taken that long to get to you.
Somewhere in the mid-teens of Billions of years we can't see any further away or any further back - the reason is not that we run out of Universe to see but instead that we run out of time the Universe has existed. If the Universe is 16 Billion years old, then any part of the Universe greater than 16 Billion light years away has not had enough time to travel to us and so can't be seen.
As we go further back in time with our telescope (see further away), we see objects created earlier and earlier for the same reason. In the first few hundred million years, there were no galaxies. Go far enough back and there are no stars or visible matter so the telescope just sees nothing. It does however pick up signs of energy fluctuations that are due to the Big Bang (whatever that was or whether God was in it or not). If we could see further, we would see energy fluctuations closer to that event but never beyond it - it does not matter how big the telescope gets. The reason is that the telescope is seeing light spread out from a point source. At time=0, the point source is just that - a point - and hence all that you can pick up is the energy that spread out from it. In fact, by definition, you can't get back to time=0 only very close to it.

2007-05-08 14:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by amthornett 2 · 0 0

Whether God created the universe or not, the answer is, no, we would not be able to see the creation of the universe.

According to what we know, the universe was dark for some time after it came into being.

2007-05-09 02:35:44 · answer #3 · answered by minuteblue 6 · 0 0

I don't think so. Unless God was like a star and emitted light as he created the Universe.

2007-05-08 13:03:09 · answer #4 · answered by Spilamilah 4 · 0 0

No, but you might be able to see the wires and rigging holding everything in place on the cosmic stage set.

2007-05-08 12:51:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

fedest.com, questions and answers