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Space telescope captures images of Big Bang's 'aft

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Running Bear

Running Bear Report 5 Jul 2010 15:16

It is designed to scan the sky with instruments sensitive to nine different bands of normally invisible microwave light.


Picking up cosmic microwaves makes it possible to see the "afterglow" of radiation produced by the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe around 14 billion years ago.

PULL THE OTHER ONE,

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 5 Jul 2010 15:37

Bet it runs on good old Dilithium Crystals .....lol

Running Bear

Running Bear Report 5 Jul 2010 15:45

are we STAR TREKKING now?

Amanda2003

Amanda2003 Report 5 Jul 2010 15:56

Only a little bit .....lol

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 5 Jul 2010 16:08

Yeah, I know. It was a big guy with a white beard that just waved his hands around for a few days, everyone knows that.

Huh, trying to fool us with science. What next - there's no Loch Ness Monster and the sun isn't dragged across the sky by two horses called Frank and Jeremy?

Eddieisagrandad

Eddieisagrandad Report 5 Jul 2010 17:34

It was a chap with a white beard - don't you know your Terry Pratchett?
It was the Dean of Unseen University in "The Science of Discworld" chapter 5.

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 5 Jul 2010 17:47

No, man with a beard called Slartibartfast is my recollection.

Running Bear

Running Bear Report 6 Jul 2010 08:31

Ok then how come the 100 or so large objects in our solar system (planets n moons etc) are all made from the same dust cloud some 5 billion year ago, yet they are all so different from each other.