Comment I would be happy if I wasn't so bitter. (Score 1) 115
You know what would have REALLY been able to "see back to the beginning of time"? A proper gravitational observatory like the LISA/Pathfinder project, which would have used three satellites to measure fluxuations in space-time less than the width of an atomic nucleus. It was planned to be operational by 2015 and would have been able to "see" better and farther than light-based telescopes.
But I probably will never see anything as cool as that, because it lost funding when the Webb sucked up all the oxygen in the room.