The BBC has a report on NASA's successor to the amazing Hubble telescope. The new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST--for a former NASA officer) will be nearly three times bigger than Hubble. It will cost $4.5 billion,when completed in 2013, hang out nearly a million miles from Earth and use a huge mirror to see where no one has yet gone.
But this is the statement from Edward Weiler, director of NASA's Goddard Space Center is what took my breath away:
"We need a much bigger telescope to go back much further in time to see the very birth of the Universe."
Science Fiction.Hell, in 1886, a Sci Fi writer named Jules Verne wrote a great sci fi yarn about some guy named Nemo (no an orphan fish) who traveled under the ocean in something he called a submarine.
Hmm. I wonder what seeing the origins of the universe will do to Creationist theory.
