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human
If our telescopes were powerful enough could we see the starting point of the big bang?

It seems like the light from the big bang would have passed us by long ago.
gpt
If we are looking at electromagnetic radiation, we can only see back to about 400,000 years after the big bang when the electrons in the universe became bound to the protons and it became transparent. This is the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We can look for signatures in the CMB from before that, such as the signature of gravitational wave polarization in the recent BICEP2 results.

We'd have to use other methods to see farther back than that. For example, a very powerful neutrino telescope could perhaps detect primordial neutrinos from the very early universe.