We see the light from about 380,000 years after the big bang. The big bang happened 13.7 billion years ago I learned after I watched a show I own again. The age of the universe was recently discovered only a year or two ago for certain.

So yes, if you look 13.7 billion light years in one direction, you'll see what the very early universe looked like. We can't see before that because when the big bang happened, all the light photons couldn't escape because there was too much matter in the way for them to go anywhere. When the universe began to expand more and more, light was able to get away, and that is what we see today.

too much info that i dont feel like saying buta few things....if the sun were to go out while life still exists it would be about in 4-5 billion years at the rate things are going in which we would not die of unstandable cold because before the sun stops emitting heat it will expand engulfing all near planets and coming close to earth's atmosphere which would fry the earth and all its inhabitants.....but way before that happens our ozone layer and atmosphere will deteriorate allowing far more deadlier amounts of uv rays and other rays to pulverize all life.....many other problems will occur until that also......basically...we will die long before the sun goes out UNLESS we get off this planet

That is ture. Earths atmosphere will eventually disipate.

If one really thinks about it, how long do you really think we would last on this planet the way things are going now? Environment and Pollution is one thing, greed, resources, war hatred are other things. Unless we "see the light" and change our ways, earth won't last another 500 years in my opinion. That doesn't mean that we can't go other places...but Earth is our home. Its a shame the way we treat it.

whoops, double post oOo:

plus, if you read the book of revalations, you'll know the rapture cant be far from now. I give us fifty years at best.

i think the general opinion of the average person right now is "I don't care. I won't be around then. What affect will it have on my dead body?