Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Michael_Michaelangelo

OK, I have a giant, incredibly powerful telescope, and I am looking farther and farther out in space, which means I am seeing farther and farther back in time. But, if at one point in the distant past, before the big bang, everything was condensed into a tiny area, how far out into space will I have to look to see the time when everything was not actually farther out in space, but was condensed into a tiny area?

I have a headache.


94 posted on 09/24/2004 11:51:44 AM PDT by spodefly (A bunny-slippered operative in the Vast Right-Wing Pajama Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: spodefly
But, if at one point in the distant past, before the big bang, everything was condensed into a tiny area, how far out into space will I have to look to see the time when everything was not actually farther out in space, but was condensed into a tiny area?

You can't, you run out of time before you run out of space, at last estimation.

96 posted on 09/24/2004 11:57:02 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies ]

To: spodefly

It's been done. If you look farther back, you see the microwave radiation. Note that the "tiny area" is "now" the entire universe.


136 posted on 09/24/2004 1:39:35 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 94 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson