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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by amtrak-tom could we eventually see the creation of the universe as we "catch up" with the light that was transmitted at the time of creation? [/quote] In my less than professional opinion as someone that considered an astronomy minor in college: No, we couldn't. Even if we could construct a telescope with enough resolving power, the universe (which would be quite a strange concept, observing the entire universe as an external viewer while still contained with in the universe) would be too dense an object and its light, while extremely bright at the time, would be far too diffuse for us to get a good long look. It would look like a great ball of stuff that would could not see in to. And even if we could actually observe that, then you'd have trouble seeing what came before that when we didn't have atoms and such. And before then, we can't observe anything that happened before Planck time at all because physics as we know it didn't function the same way. It would be like trying to play a game of baseball using football rules. Since the Big Bang would have happened before Planck time, we couldn't see it. Calling it the Big Bang is an awful term. It inspires such great visions of an unimaginably powerful explosion, when it really would have just been space being added between stuff at a fast rate. Nothing really moved, like in an explosion, but the distance between everything got bigger. Its a very hard thing to grasp at first. As for that superdense ball of matter that popped, I figure God created the mechanism that created it or it was just kinda there and didn't need to be created, but that's just me.
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