
What will the Giant Magellan Telescope show us?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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I'd Love to Show Up, Like a Thousand Years From Now
I would love to know in a thousand years, which one of your two big questions ended up being more complicated and harder to solve. It takes like 300 years to get around asking the right question and figuring out how to do basic experiments to answer it. And sometimes the direction of science is changed by something that we see in the universe that we are surprised by. We develop a new kind of eyeball, a new way to look at the universe shows us something happening out there we didn't even think to look for. Listeners will be familiar with things like thefr bubbles, these crazy, huge blobs of stuff above and below the galaxy recently discovered nobody was even looking for them.
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