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A quote:
"Two projects that will study dark energy – a mysterious substance that accounts for 74% of the total mass-energy of the universe and is causing its rate of expansion to increase – are given the highest priority in the large space-based and the large ground-based categories."
"They are:
1) the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which has an estimated cost of only $1.6bn and;
2) the top priority for large ground-based missions is given to another telescope that will attempt to study the nature of dark energy and dark matter. The $465m Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which when complete in 2015 will survey the entire sky every three nights with an 8.4m optical telescope in Chile."
Interesting to see how much actually gets funded. 'Twill be a good 'empirical test' of the credibility of the 'darkness theories' ... all up the entire program comes to about $13.8b over 10 years !
Cheers
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