The Ultimate Telescope

[glenc]

Tegmark revealed blueprints for an instrument beyond astronomers' wildest dreams -
a telescope capable of observing the whole sky and all wavelengths of radiation simultaneously.
http://oliphant.org.au/nova/newscientist/065ns_001.htm


Fast Fourier Transform Telescope is Tegmark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark) and Zaldarriaga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matias_Zaldarriaga)'s name for a design for an all-digital (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital) synthetic-aperture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_synthesis) telescope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_Transform_Telescope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_telescope_technology

[astroron]

Like the writer of the article said, My head is spinning too.
Cheers:thumbsup:

[Miaplacidus]

Man, what you can't think of when you're pumped full of nitrous oxide and Novocaine.