February 25th, 2014, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by
thestotle
We are constantly moving out from where the big bang happened correct?
No. It was everywhere.
Now I know its hard to know exactly where the singularity was located
It was here! (And there, and over there...)
Perhaps the best way to realise this is to run the movie backwards: the universe contracts, and gets more and more dense; eventually we are right next to the Andromeda galaxy then things keep getting denser. Eventually the entire (visible) universe is smaller than a dot. Everywhere is in one small volume.
The observable light that we examine as far back in time as we can could not be the earliest light nor could it be early at all, right?
The oldest radiation we see is the cosmic microwave background. This was released when the universe first became transparent (about 380,000 years after time zero).
ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat