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The Planck Sat will be a deep-IR satellite with a lens 3.5 meters across. It'll have 10 times the resolution of the WMAP that gave us so much info about the cosmic background radiation, so we'll get some incredible data off this sucker.
Our various theories about the origins of the universe make certain predictions about the structure of the cosmic background radiation that may be observable with this higher-resolution camera, so we may actually get an answer to 'is our universe cyclic?' 'Is it a singular event?' 'Was it created by colliding brains in higher-dimensional space, a quantum fluctuation, or something else?'
Exciting! We're on the verge of knowing the origin of everything. Though I suspect once we know this, more questions will be raised. Think there's a chance these observations may open the doorway for more viable FTL travel theories?
The Planck Sat will be a deep-IR satellite with a lens 3.5 meters across. It'll have 10 times the resolution of the WMAP that gave us so much info about the cosmic background radiation, so we'll get some incredible data off this sucker.
Our various theories about the origins of the universe make certain predictions about the structure of the cosmic background radiation that may be observable with this higher-resolution camera, so we may actually get an answer to 'is our universe cyclic?' 'Is it a singular event?' 'Was it created by colliding brains in higher-dimensional space, a quantum fluctuation, or something else?'
Exciting! We're on the verge of knowing the origin of everything. Though I suspect once we know this, more questions will be raised. Think there's a chance these observations may open the doorway for more viable FTL travel theories?