Scientists See Light that May Be from First Objects in Universe

NASA ^ | November 2, 2005

[Black Tooth]

Well that's the problem with theory's. They remain theories until proven to be fact.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for sharing your insights!

Yes I have noticed anomalous time in my dreams. I also sense timelessness both while awake and asleep (Col 3:3).

[Palisades]

Where was it before that?

It could have been nowhere. Our limited simian minds may be incapable of grasping certain facts of universal history. It's a mistake to assume that we are capable of understanding everything in the universe.

What was there before that?

Nothing, maybe.

[nmh]

LOL!

MY God does ALL that He states.

Too bad, if you have a "god" he cannot.

Again, professing to be wise, you are a fool.

Never mind about the faulting dating and age methods used ... believe what you wish!

Taking the foolish word of man over God, is MOST UNWISE.

[hosepipe]

[ Yes I have noticed anomalous time in my dreams. I also sense timelessness both while awake and asleep (Col 3:3). ]

The only thing I've noticed awake is that all we have is the moment.. The past might as well never happened and the future might not get here.. and the past and future are both composed of moments anyways.. Take care of the moments correctly and the other two will take care of themselves.. sounds almost biblical..

[Recon Dad]

Not to continue this ad infinitum, but nothing is nothing so the only thing to come out of nothing is more of the same. I don't claim extraordinary understanding, but there has to be a source of your nothing, if you care to start there.

[RightWhale]

That’s just about as far back as it will be possible to go.

In time, perhaps, but by the same model the universe is as much bigger than the Hubble volume as earth is to a grain of sand.

[R. Scott]

This light could be from the very first stars or perhaps from hot gas falling into the first black holes.

I should have phrased it a bit differently – instead of “That’s just about as far back as it will be possible to go.” It should have been “That’s just about as far back as it will be possible to see”.

[RightWhale]

The problem is that we cannot see what amounts to the entire universe. The small piece, infinitesimally small, that we can see should not be all that we can ever see. It is as if we lived in a small village in the woods in Borneo and never knew of Jakarta, Singapore, Bombey, Baghdad, Paris, New York, and never had a clue that anybody such as Copernicus could exist. The properties of light evidently limit our perceptions. This is unacceptable!

[Alamo-Girl]

It is indeed Biblical - Sermon on the Mount, Matt 6:34

Thank you for your reply and your testimony!

[R. Scott]

The properties of light evidently limit our perceptions. This is unacceptable!

For now – just wait a century or so.

[RightWhale]

Can't wait. Want quarter-pounder Happy Meal, NOW!

[R. Scott]

Well, we are supposed to be living in the times of instant gratification…