Speaker 2
But maybe that's too wild. Back in the 90s, people thought that cosmic strings might have been responsible for like how the large scale structure of our universe formed, but cosmic wave background measurements told us that wasn't the case. And then people forgot about them for a long time, it seems. So maybe it's not most of the energy in our universe, but it could still be a small amount. That would be cool still after all cosmic strings, even if there's only one of them would be super exciting and a nanograph can look for them. I agree. Yeah,
Speaker 1
absolutely. So you know, it's so cool that we don't really know yet because now it's just the time where everyone's going to be dreaming and what a beautiful, creative time everyone's going to come up and be incentivized to create beautiful ideas. And a lot of them probably won't work out. But what if someone reads that idea and then gets a new idea that works? This is just going to be such a creative renaissance in the field. I think I can't wait to see
Speaker 2
what people dream up of. Well, and another thing I like about this is like, even if what nanograph is seeing, it turns out we learn concretely that it's a bunch of super massive black holes merging or something, we'll be able to test a variety of exotic scenarios for the early universe. And we'll be able to say, well, these theories, these otherwise viable, you know, hypotheses for what went on in the early universe are ruled out. And the idea that you can like look at these ripples of space time throughout our universe and know something about what happened in our universe when it was, I don't know, 10 to minus 32 seconds old or something, that's pretty amazing. Yeah, that's pretty great.
Speaker 1
I strongly agree.