John Carlstrom: 10-Billion-Year Afterglow

10-Billion-Year Afterglow

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MacArthur fellow and astrophysicist John Carlstrom '81 codesigned and built D.A.S.I. (Degree Angular Scale Interferometer), an array of ultra-sensitive instruments at the South Pole that measures C.M.B. (cosmic microwave background) radiation, the 10-billion-year-old afterglow of the big bang. It sounds complicated, and it is. Basically? Carlstrom just wants to find out how the universe formed and what its ultimate fate will be.

More: http://www.aavc.vassar.edu/vq/spring2004/sts.html