[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...a nifty image with the source article.

Nifty, yes. But I have a question. If this image is an accurate representation of our Universe, shouldn't it be possible to aim a telescope at vast expanses of sky that have nothing? Literally away from the apparent source of the Big Bang? And what forces made this Big Bang so...directional?

[RightWhale]

The diagram is dimensional, the time axis is horizontal, the vertical kind of spatial, all spatial dimensions in one. As far as the Big Bang being in a particular direction, it is actually in all directions. Any direction you look, if you see deeply enough, you will see the Big Bang. It's like we are in the middle, looking through the other end of the telescope.

[Eastbound]

"ah...Ah...AH...AHHHHH-CHOOOO!!"