The £1billion ‘time machine’ which could finally reveal mysteries of the universe: World’s largest telescope will finally be turned on tomorrow

• Made up of 66 giant antennae which gather faint radio waves from space for processing by a supercomputer
• ALMA is situated in the Chile desert at 16,400ft – roughly half the cruising height of a jumbo jet and almost four times higher than Ben Nevis
• By collecting radio waves rather than optical light, ALMA can look through the dense dust clouds of deep space

It looks like it belongs in a science fiction film but this ‘time machine’ could provide us with the facts about where we came from.

To be switched on tomorrow, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, is the world’s most powerful telescope.  

It is also the highest on the planet and, at almost £1billion, the most …see link– http://alien-ufo-community.ning.com/forum/topics/the-1billion-time-machine-which-could-finally-reveal-mysteries-of?xg_source=activity