Riddle Me This?

NASA plans a "super duper" upgrade to the Hubble space telescope this week.

Astronauts will also install a new imaging camera and a Cosmic Origins Spectrograph -- an especially sensitive instrument designed to split light it captures into individual wavelengths.

The spectrograph, NASA says, will not only be able to study stars, planets and galaxies but also basic elements found throughout the cosmos, such as carbon and iron.

And the new instruments will allow Hubble to peer even further back into time, perhaps as far back as some 600 million years before the Big Bang, much further than the billion years it can reach back now.

Looking into time before the Big Bang?

I'm not a theoretical physicist but I am a thinker: how would you "time code" an image from before the Big Bang?