How Can We See the Big Bang? | Brian Cox

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How Can We See the Big Bang? | Brian Cox

The Big Bang happened nearly 13.8 billion years ago, but remarkably, we can still observe its afterglow in the present day. In this discussion, Brian Cox explains how modern astronomy allows us to look back in time and witness the early moments of the universe. The key to this lies in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)—the faint remnant heat from the Big Bang, which permeates the universe and serves as the oldest observable light. Using powerful telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and radio observatories, scientists can detect this radiation, providing a direct window into the universe’s infancy.

Since light takes time to travel, looking at distant galaxies is like looking into the past. The farther away a galaxy is, the older the light we see. Some of the earliest galaxies, formed just hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, are now visible thanks to advancements in observational technology. The phenomenon of redshift—where light from ancient galaxies is stretched due to the expansion of the universe—allows astronomers to determine their distance and age, further confirming our models of cosmic evolution.

Brian Cox delves into how the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) also helps us understand the Big Bang by recreating extreme conditions similar to those in the universe’s first fractions of a second. By smashing particles together at high speeds, physicists can study the fundamental forces that shaped the cosmos.

Ultimately, our ability to "see" the Big Bang is not through direct observation of the explosion itself, but through the relics it left behind—faint radiation, distant galaxies, and subatomic particles that still carry the signatures of the universe’s origins. Each discovery brings us closer to answering one of the biggest questions in physics: How did everything begin?

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[s.b.]

😲🥺 With naked eyes.
I haven’t seen Andromeda Galaxy with naked eyes. Even tried to see it with binoculars - for several years and each year in fall for many nights searching and searching - no success so far.

[mugiwarastrawhatjoyboy]

okay but which direction do you look at to see the CMBR? as we know the observable universe is like a circle or an ellipse so all of the edges of the shape is the CMBR? if so, then the big bang would make sense bro

[martymuse]

Yes, but the light that you're seeing is in the present😂

[martymuse]

Yeah, but the light that you're seeing is in the present. So you're not actually looking into the past😂 The earliest you could go back is what you would have recorded from your lifetime😂

[temijinkahn]

If everything in the current univers was concentrated in one spot, wouldn't that create a black hole that would keep everything trapped? How could it go, bang?

The prime mover caused the big bang. We call him God.

[jeromejackson]

Lololol yea sure we can see back 13 billion almost to big bang lolololololololol