Fw: viewing light from the big bang?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Walker" <wincowalker@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: viewing light from the big bang?

> No, I don't think so.
>
> If by looking far with the view to catch the light emitted at that time,
in
> classical physics the light would have traveled away and died off.
> Even if space is curved and it comes back it will be in another dimension
> and not perceivable.
> In case you think the image is there like a photograph for you to see you
> have to wait for billions of light years for the image to arrive.
> If the image has been continuously beaming you don't need any such
telescope
> and would be already seeing it.
>
> Also, I think the entire idea of time travel is fictitious and imaginary.
>
> "Adam Russell" <adamrussell@sbcglobal.net.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4l60abFcvqkU1@individual.net...
> > I'm reading an article telling about a radio telescope setup in Chile
that
> > they are hoping to see far enough out to view the big bang. I
understand
> > the idea that the farther out you look the further back in time you see,
> but
> > isnt there a limit to that? It seems to me that any light that started
> from
> > the big bang would have to have already passed us, or else it would
imply
> > that at some point we had been traveling faster than that light.
> >
> >
>
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