Theoretical

Tonight was the beginning of the special on Discovery of the universe hosted by Stephen Hawking. OH I have been looking forward to this for weeks, I read A Brief History of Time and LOVED it. I still think I would make a great astronaut/theoretical physicist. So if we could travel 99.9% the speed of light, back towards the direction of the big bang, technically we should be able to pass over and not see the "old" light from the big bang and stars and such and begin to see what is new, which would be nothing but empty space due to the universe expanding? So I am traveling in my gigantic spaceship towards the light from a star, eventually I would not see that light anymore as I got close to traveling the speed of light and eventually just see the very fragments left from the bang and then nothing because of expansion. Hmmmm. Really wish I could just call up Mr. hawking and ask him, I'll be up for days thinking about this one. (Yes, I know I am HUGE nerd, comparable to Sherman on Big Bang Theory when I show this side of me.)