The ends of the Universe

Zaehet Strife · Jan 2, 2013

So i've been reading up on the James Webb Space Telescope that is supposed to be entering orbit around 2018. Because of the time it takes light to travel, the further away an object is, the further back in time we can see. I'm extremely excited about this telescope, it makes me wonder how far back in time we will be able to see. I wonder if it's possible, with a powerful enough telescope, to actually see with out own eyes the beginning of time...

I hope humans can keep from sending nuke's around the world before this telescope is made, i really want to see whats out there.

(This might belong better in the technology forum, you can move it if you want to)

spandy · Jan 2, 2013

Cool story bro.

tyler.durden · Jan 2, 2013

Cool, Zaehet, I hadn't heard about this one. How much more powerful is it to be than the Hubble? I thought the Hubble could see back almost to the beginning of our universe...

smokeytokeybear · Jan 2, 2013

tyler.durden said:
Cool, Zaehet, I hadn't heard about this one. How much more powerful is it to be than the Hubble? I thought the Hubble could see back almost to the beginning of our universe...

for comparison the mirrors on hubble would be like penny size compared to the 50 cent piece james webb design

gioua · Jan 3, 2013

A review of the program released in August 2011, says the cost for the telescope and 5 years of operations will be $8.7 billion with a planned launch in 2018.[SUP][62][/SUP] Of that price about $800 million is for the five years of operations

doubt it will ever be a go.. we cant afford it...

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

eye exaggerate · Jan 3, 2013

...that's cool. Hey strife, what happens when you rotate the second image 90 degrees counter-clockwise? - lol

Zaehet Strife · Jan 3, 2013

tyler.durden said:
Cool, Zaehet, I hadn't heard about this one. How much more powerful is it to be than the Hubble? I thought the Hubble could see back almost to the beginning of our universe...

I think the Hubble telescope can "only" see 13.2 billion years into the past.

Dislexicmidget2021 · Jan 3, 2013

gioua said:
A review of the program released in August 2011, says the cost for the telescope and 5 years of operations will be $8.7 billion with a planned launch in 2018.[SUP][62][/SUP] Of that price about $800 million is for the five years of operations

doubt it will ever be a go.. we cant afford it...

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

I think even despite the enormous world of debt this Government is digging for itself,,,It will be funded by someone who takes notice and has a ton of finance,maybe it is pending already who knows.I certainly would hope that its not so cut and dry as far as this goes.

Nice post Strife ,Had no idea there were plans for this one.This will be kickass when it dose come into fruition.

smokeytokeybear · Jan 3, 2013

Dislexicmidget2021 said:
I think even despite the enormous world of debt this Government is digging for itself,,,It will be funded by someone who takes notice and has a ton of finance,maybe it is pending already who knows.I certainly would hope that its not so cut and dry as far as this goes.

Nice post Strife ,Had no idea there were plans for this one.This will be kickass when it dose come into fruition.

i agree with you 100% somebody who has cake will fund this even if we cant

ginjawarrior · Jan 3, 2013

Zaehet Strife said:
So i've been reading up on the James Webb Space Telescope that is supposed to be entering orbit around 2018. Because of the time it takes light to travel, the further away an object is, the further back in time we can see. I'm extremely excited about this telescope, it makes me wonder how far back in time we will be able to see. I wonder if it's possible, with a powerful enough telescope, to actually see with out own eyes the beginning of time...

I hope humans can keep from sending nuke's around the world before this telescope is made, i really want to see whats out there.

(This might belong better in the technology forum, you can move it if you want to)

as far as im aware the cosmic background radiation is a wall that we'll probably never see past

at that time every point in space was irradiating across the spectrum filtering that out would be beyond any capabilities we have now

high|hgih · Jan 6, 2013

Wow, thats pretty cool! Damn nukes.. I really hope none of that happens.. It'd be so.. Unnecessary..

I'll have to keep up to date!

What ever happened to that New Horizons probe? I'm gonna look that shit up.

cannabineer · Jan 6, 2013

eye exaggerate said:
...that's cool. Hey strife, what happens when you rotate the second image 90 degrees counter-clockwise? - lol

If you do that ... it reminds me startlingly of a ketamine vision I had of "the wellspring of existence". cn

high|hgih · Jan 7, 2013

https://www.rollitup.org/spirituali...deas-your-psychologist-would.html#post8487721

cn, hop on this. lol

dannyboy602 · Jan 10, 2013

my guess is if they can turn the thing around and use it to spy on people it will be up and running in the forseeable future.

ginjawarrior · Jan 10, 2013

dannyboy602 said:
my guess is if they can turn the thing around and use it to spy on people it will be up and running in the forseeable future.

perhaps they wont use them and we get some free ones in the future

http://www.popsci.com/technology/ar...py-telescopes-each-maybe-more-powerful-hubble

Moebius · Jan 19, 2013

They won't be able to see the BIG BANG itself because photons formed after the event. ... Current hypotheses include a theory called inflation where in the seconds after the event, space inflated like a balloon at faster than light speeds.

Moebius · Jan 19, 2013

Also, Space has been shown to be lumpy through experimental data.

Einstein showed that space and time are inextricably linked. he called it 'space/time'. It may therefore be postulated that time is also 'lumpy'. i.e not linear, not constant.

So; what I try and get my head around is 'When they say it started like 3 billion years ago' what does that even mean? does it even mean anything?

Zaehet Strife · Jan 20, 2013

^I guess we'll find out =D

oldchiefer · Jan 21, 2013

This will definitely be an amazing addition to the world of science....and all the wankers like us that just want to see the pictures :lol:

Snowed · Jan 21, 2013

Everything begins, everything ends.. Before something, there was nothing. How did we go from nothing to something?

BTW... I'd rather have a scope to look into our hollow earth

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