How It All Started
Last week scientists announced that they had performed what amounts to a detailed handwriting analysis. Using a telescope carried by a balloon above Antarctica, the “Boomerang” experiment produced the first-ever high-resolution map of the cosmic radiation, 40 times finer than anything done before. The measurements confirm theories of how the world began by offering “the first clear images of the embryonic universe,” said astrophysicist Andrew Lange of the California Institute of Technology, co-leader of the Boomerang team with Paolo de Bernardis of the University of Rome....