Observing the Big Bang

Factual Questions
1

I realize that this is probably a stupid question, but here goes.

If the universe is 13 some billion years old, why can’t we just look 13 billion light years away and see the Big Bang?

2

Because we are inside the Big Bang. However, you can “see” the Big Bang through a microwave receiver, in the form of Cosmic Background Radiation.

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cmbr_home.html

Since we are within the Big Bang, the radiation is coming from all directions.

3

One of the problems with this is that until about 300,000 years follwing the Big Bang, the Universe was opaque to photons. As a result, we can never directly observe closer to the Bang than about 300,000 years. The Bang itself will be forever hidden from our view.