Welcome back, oscillating universe theory. Instruments coming online in the next 10 years will be able to see beyond the supposed Big Bang. What will they say when they see galaxies from before the Big Bang? This makes sense only if the universe does not collapse down to a point but in fact oscillates between maxima and minima over a long cycle. Some galaxies from the previous contraction are still with us. Thus, the universe may be much older than currently imagined.
So far the universe looks exactly the same no matter how far away you look, except that it gets red-shifted the farther you go due mainly to spacetime expansion effects. The oscillating universe with no Big Crunch may be consistent with the observations of spacetime expansion and stars/galaxies that appear to be older than the beginning of the expansion.
Theoretically, though, wouldn't you be looking back in time the further away you look? If light travels at its set speed, the further away in space you look, the further back in time you go. How could stuff so far away still have the appearance of the same age as stuff nearby? If we are seeing the light from some billions of years ago that's just reaching the earth now, it should look like it did at the beginning.
At the current time, there is no theoretically plausible way to look "beyond" the big bang. It may be possible to improve on basic theories in cosmology and physics by exposing some new data, but nobody really knows how to look through a "quark soup".
These are exciting times to live in though. And I'm not cursing in Chinese.