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    How Can the Big Bang Be Visible Everywhere in the Universe?

    Thanks! That's what I was trying to get at.
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    How Can the Big Bang Be Visible Everywhere in the Universe?

    I agree with all of this - but this isn't the question. Okay a thought experiment to simplify the question. Suppose the universe was 1cm wide 300,000 years after the Big Bang, when light starts to appear. Today the universe is 100cm wide. How come when I look north today, I can see light from...
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    How Can the Big Bang Be Visible Everywhere in the Universe?

    Okay, forget the idea of a 'big ball', it was just a thought and I realize the data doesn't support it. But on the first question you say "It was not until an estimated 380,000 years after the big bang before the temperatures cooled sufficiently to allow for atoms to coalesce and photons were...
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    How Can the Big Bang Be Visible Everywhere in the Universe?

    Please help - I'm sure there's a simple answer to this question, so any explanation would be very welcome: If you looked out into the night sky with an ultrapowerful telescope, in principle you could see back to the Big Bang no matter which direction you pointed it (suppose for a moment that...
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