redorbit.com — On this windswept peak where visitors gasp in the thin air, Mexico is building the world\'s largest telescope of its kind, an instrument primed to be powerful enough for scientists to look back at the dawn of the universe.
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arichardAug 26, 2007
Is this a MASA project?
tehtopherAug 26, 2007
Actually, this is not an example of adaptive optics as this is a radio telescope, not an optical one. The Thirty Meter Telescope, which is in final design stages, will utilize adaptive optics.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_meter_telescope">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_meter_telescope</a>The Keck Observatory is currently equipped with adaptive optics.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keck_Observatory">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keck_Observatory</a>
trax91Aug 26, 2007
Reconsider your gender.
seatonAug 26, 2007
Dugg for the "send the whale to outer space" reference.
celotilAug 26, 2007
I haven't RTFA so take my comments with a grain of salt (as you always should with any comments anyway) but it seems to me that whatever the shape of our universe (soccer ball, oval, donut), the origins of the universe are either invisible due to the theory of the Big Bang, or my theory of the Big Burn.Let me explain, before I'm dugg down into oblivion.If our universe, and I say this keeping in mind the idea of a multiple complex of universes existing around our own, was begun by a Big Bang then it stands to reason that everything we can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste started off at a point of origin. Now if this point of origin began our universe, and it's been expanding for billions of year, then how would we see it? It's not a single point by now but likely to be the outer edge of what we _can_ see with our best astronomical equipment.My own theory of the Big Burn (where the precursor of our own universe was a universe made of antimatter, and a single flipped electron started a chain reaction that continues to expand our universe as it burns away the antiverse) leads me to the same conclusion, albeit in a round-a-bout fashion.If the interface between our own universe and the multiverse around it is moving faster than light then how can we find it?Sorry if I'm a bit vague but I'm drunk.
sabachAug 26, 2007
JamesSpaza = epic troll
lochieAug 26, 2007
This is, by a wide margin, the least likely thing that has ever happened.