The Young Universe - Wild Neutrinos And Our First Hundred Thousand Years
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 13:20
in Astronomy & Space
Detectives of both the amateur and occupational variety know that the best way to solve a mystery is to visit the scene where it began and look for clues. Cosmological detectives do that too, by trying to peer as far back to the Big Bang as possible. A new analysis of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation data has taken the furthest look back through time yet – 100 years to 300,000 years after the Big Bang - and provided tantalizing new hints of clues as to what might have happened. read more