Will there ever be a telescope powerful enough to see the Big Bang ?
[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 14-06-18] [Hit: ]
the universe was so hot. It was so hot that all existing matter was in a state of plasma. Thus, any light that tried to venture through the early universe would get absorbed or scattered. Therefore, the early universe was opaque.......
No, there is something preventing us. See, prior to approximately 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was so hot. It was so hot that all existing matter was in a state of plasma. Thus, any light that tried to venture through the early universe would get absorbed or scattered. Therefore, the early universe was opaque. It wasn't until approximately 380,000 years after the Big Bang that the universe cooled enough for the matter to not become plasma, thus allowing the light to venture out through space. So any photons that receive would only give us information about the universe 380,000 years subsequent to the Big Bang.
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My cerebral cortex.
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No, but the James Webb Space Telescope might be able to see back to when the universe became transparent to electromagnetic radiation, if it ever gets launched. and parked in the assigned parking space at the L2 point. Of course, if Congress keeps playing politics with NASA's funding, the JWST may never be launched. .
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No universe was not transparent at the time of bigbang!
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There was a long period of time after the Big Bang and before stars lighted up.
No, not directly.
Indirectly, yes, such as seeing the gravitational waves of the Inflation time.
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Nope, since there is a "wall", for lack of a better term, that was blocking all light from the start of the BB.
The reionization period was about 400 million years after the BB, and was when the light from the first stars were able to travel freely in the still expanding Universe -
http://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topi...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
We can also "see" the the afterglow, which is the cosmic microwave background radiation - roughly 300,000 years after the BB.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_...
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