Michael Daly wrote:

On 12-Feb-2005, Rick wrote:


When you invent your time
machine and make those observations, please send us a report


We have something of a time machine - the observable universe.
Since information takes time to travel, the farther away we
look, the further back in time we see. Hence, what we see
close by happened recently and what we observe far away happened
in the distant past.

Mike

Good point. It is assumed that if you could get far enough away from the
center of the universe, with a powerful enough observation device, you
could see the big bang (or whatever was responsible for the origin of
the universe) occur. The problem is, of course, getting there.

Rick