And actually it's even weirder. The universe was opaque to light for the first 300k years or so. There was so much matter at such a high density that photons were reabsorbed nearly as soon as they were emitted.
The universe is a strange place!
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Whoa.
very distressing. No matter how much our technology evolves, we will never see the beginning
It is a little! But just because we can't "see" it doesn't mean we can't "know". Science let's us build theories that we can use to generate hypotheses and test even that early universe.
I mean, where science stops is where spiritual practice and religion begins.
Truths outside of the material experience and the trick of the ego convincing one is a human is an entirely different avenue of thought.
Science is dope and psychedelic at times, but psychedelics peel back that curtain of material existence.
To concede to the material existence is to be trapped in the material existence.
Play by your own rules.
If you've ever heard of the "cosmic microwave background" that is that first light of the universe. It's around 2-3 degrees kelvin and we can measure minute variations in the temperature at super cluster distances that correspond to galaxy clusters. Those temperature variations were differences in the baryonic soup of the early universe and where we see more matter now. i.e. galaxies