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Looking back in time when Universe was young – echoes from outer edge – who created the Universe?
The light--or radio emissions--that we detect, took billions of years to reach our instruments, so we are seeing the galaxy as it was then, not as it is now. These telescopes are therefore like time machines that help cosmologists learn more about the origins, and, ultimately, the fate of the universe.
The biggest question in the human mind is: where did this universe come from? Who created it?
The answer may lie in the echoes of from the outer edge of the universe. The echoes are not visible. The structures of the Universe and their movements--which can''t be explained as part of the expansion of the universe--must be guided by the gravitational pull of matter. And yet, scientists have not yet detected enough matter to account for this tremendous gravitational pull. And so we must add one more player into our hierarchical scenario: dark matter.
The echoes from the outer edge in the form of microwave and unknown spectrum of vibrations in higher dimensions have all the information. But our technology does not capture them.
When cosmologists focus their telescopes on a galaxy billions of light years away, they are actually looking back in time, when the universe was very young. The light--or radio emissions--that we detect took billions of years to reach our instruments, so we are seeing the galaxy as it was then, not as it is now. These telescopes are therefore like time machines that help cosmologists learn more about the origins, and, ultimately, the fate of the universe.
Ever more powerful instruments have made it possible to look farther out and farther back than ever before possible, and what cosmologists are seeing is simply astounding. Theories about the origin and fate of the universe are being variously bolstered, refined, or turned on their heads based on these new observations.
Cosmologists hope that their observations will help answer these questions, some of which have dogged scientists for centuries:
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