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The Infinite Past

We all know about the Big Bang, the theory of the creation of the universe. If space grows at rate faster than light, could we test our theories of how the universe was made? Well, no, we can see into the past up to a point, but the problem we run into is the fact that light did not exist until a second after the Big Bang.

We have other problems, with black holes and the event horizon. Light cannot escape the black hole’s massive gravity, and if the Big Bang happened billions of years ago, then it will be to far away to see because of the mass amount of black holes, and the amount of event horizons that we don't even have a number for of which we cannot see past. Think of it as millions of walls in front of you all in different places, and you think that just behind those walls you could see the beginning of everything, but by the time you pass the walls the image of the beginning has moved to the next set of walls, and the next, which means no matter how close to the speed of light you get, you won't ever catch up unless you travel faster than light to catch up.

But if we can catch the light fast enough before anything hits the event horizons, we could potentially see into the past. Such as when you talk over the phone to someone at a game on the TV, they will know what's happening before the TV shows the next move, but it happens so fast that the delay is so small, and the farther you travel, the more delay there is, because if light travels at 186,282 miles per second and you are a million miles away, you have about five seconds until the light reaches you, which means if you have a powerful enough telescope you can look at the earth and see something that happened five seconds ago. But this is a very expensive way of seeing into the past, with more problems than it is likely to solve. But when we have colonized other planets, we can look at the other planets for solving crimes if we catch everything fast enough. So is this the way of the future, or the way to see the past?


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