I said I thought it was silly that they had to move it ten feet . This was almost 20 years ago , do you have the same thoughts you did twenty years ago ? <| sep |> maybe to many people would ' ve witness it ? Hopefully it ' s what you said but I don ' t know if it is though . He might have a personal matter with OPs family <| sep |> Fuck , got me . <| sep |> The optical universe is defined by the speed of light . The telescopes that are observing beginning galaxies 13 . 4 billion lightyears away are also looking into the past 13 . 4 billion Earthreference years . The further in the past we look , the more and more galaxies there are packed into a smaller and smaller volume . Nobody is explicitly stating it yet , but it is starting to appear we in the present , having moved outwards in spacetime at several times the speed of light , are looking back at ourselves at different stages . We can ' t look perpendicular in our present time due to relativistic effects . But , the locations of different galaxies , showing patterns in the past can be inferred to have kept expanding into our present . This is a recent optical universe map , from our present in 2016 , looking back in time about 2 billion Earthreference years , indicating the tracking of one galaxy over time . Notice how the density of galaxies in our present is less and decreasing . Galaxies do burn out . contentuploads 2016053 Dmapoftheuniverse 1600 x 1191700 x 432 . jpg We know we are looking at the way things were , not as they are in our now , with optical telescopes . However , we may be approaching the time of paradox . These optical telescopes are looking into the past , the way the optical universe was many billions of Earthreference years ago , and there is a good chance if searching 10 billion Earthreference years ago , we may see the Milky Way forming . The more powerful the optical telescopes become , they will be trying to see the Initial Singularity , which will be smaller than this period . That will be where the Cosmic Background Radiation CMB will have been initiated . The paradox comes when we are able to measure the CMB in our present as microwave radiation and it is omnidirectional , coming from all directions . It is essentially a sphere of radiation around the physical , visible , interacting , tangible universe that so many people think is everything , when it is only a part , a very small part , about 5 %. The CMB has been measured to a high detail in our present and it is a sphere around our physical existence . The physical , visible , interacting universe is contained within the CMB . cosmicmicrowavebackground