[ninty]

We see the light from about 380,000 years after the big bang. The big bang happened 13.7 billion years ago I learned after I watched a show I own again. The age of the universe was recently discovered only a year or two ago for certain.

So yes, if you look 13.7 billion light years in one direction, you'll see what the very early universe looked like. We can't see before that because when the big bang happened, all the light photons couldn't escape because there was too much matter in the way for them to go anywhere. When the universe began to expand more and more, light was able to get away, and that is what we see today.