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ScraggyDog
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Hi,
I have been musing over a question without knowing the proper answer for quite some time now and hope that someone in this community can give me some explanation or help.
I was thinking about the fact that if I were to be watching the sky one night and saw a star explode (or whatever) then it would have happened (so many) years (light years) ago/away.
Then it occurred to me that 'IF' we had a telescope powerful enough, then surely it should follow that we could observe the Big Bang ...... Not being much of an astronomer, at first I assumed that the furthest observable object would be no where near far enough to see in the past.
I've just Wiki/Googled the furthest visible object and it says it is 12 billion light years away - I compare that with when the big bang was supposed to happen = 13.7 billion light years away - hmmm not too far apart.....Which surprised me.
Could someone explain if this is theoretically possible ? And if not why... i have read into Horizon Problem but i'm not sure if this is the answer.
Regards Scraggy
I have been musing over a question without knowing the proper answer for quite some time now and hope that someone in this community can give me some explanation or help.
I was thinking about the fact that if I were to be watching the sky one night and saw a star explode (or whatever) then it would have happened (so many) years (light years) ago/away.
Then it occurred to me that 'IF' we had a telescope powerful enough, then surely it should follow that we could observe the Big Bang ...... Not being much of an astronomer, at first I assumed that the furthest observable object would be no where near far enough to see in the past.
I've just Wiki/Googled the furthest visible object and it says it is 12 billion light years away - I compare that with when the big bang was supposed to happen = 13.7 billion light years away - hmmm not too far apart.....Which surprised me.
Could someone explain if this is theoretically possible ? And if not why... i have read into Horizon Problem but i'm not sure if this is the answer.
Regards Scraggy