Seeking our Cosmic Origins on the Far Side of the Moon
From the Denver Post: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his vision in late May of creating permanent colonies on the Moon. He isn鈥檛 alone: a new space race is taking shape as diverse companies and governments, including our own, have set their sights on putting boots on the Moon for the first time in 40 years.
What has been missing in these discussions is how the Moon may serve as a jumping off point to explore one of the most profound questions ever posed by humanity: how did the universe begin?
We have proposed a lunar radio array that would do just that. It would be made up of thousands of simple radio antennas deployed over tens of kilometers of lunar terrain. This sprawling observatory on the far side of the Moon, built and operated by humans in tandem with robots, would transmit data to orbiting satellites to correlate and send back to Earth.