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> Now you are staring into the big bang in all its glory; make sure to wear safety squints.

Wait what? That's not true right? All the light we see is concentrated in one point but it's not really the big bang that we see, it's an illusion, is that correct?




It's blue-shifted microwave radiation from big bang. You see it in one point because doppler effect is directional




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