system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
The farther away you look, the farther back in time you are seeing.  Therefore, if we were look far enough away, could we see the formation of the universe?
gpt
The furthest back in time we can see is the cosmic microwave background when the universe was ~379,000 years old. The cosmic microwave background is the thermal emission from the universe when it had expanded and cooled enough for protons and electrons to combine into hydrogen, so called recombination. Before this time, the universe was a plasma which was opaque to light meaning we will never be able to see any light from before this time.