Life in the cold

Well, sorry for being absent for so long. I hadn't realized it'd been 10 days since my last entry here. Another magical thing about being isolated is that time REALLY slows down. A lot of the days here are a mirror image of the one before if you browse over it. Once you dig in though, there are a lot of differences to each one. So, let's see, what's happened in these ten days? --- Cori had a birthday down here. We celebrated, drank some wine and danced. (It's really amazing how everbody down here will get out on a dance floor at any given time).
--We've also been having some interesting Science lectures. Down here, they do a lot of cutting edge science, as you may have guessed. A lot of stuff centers on the clean air and atmosphere down here, and how much pollution from the rest of the world ends up here; there are sciesmic studies happening, which look at how much this glacier we're sitting on moves during each year, and what effect, if any, global warming is playing into it, (yes, global warming is really happening). --These are all significant experiments happening, and they are all funded with millions of dollars behind them, but now, these are almost pale in comparison to some of the newer labs that are coming in now. Right now under construction here are telescopes that can read energy left over from the formation of our universe (the Big Bang). Essentially, they are becoming more capable of being able to "time travel". --What are they doing with this information?? Well, despite what some of you may think, we are not being experimented on down here. (Except possibly for the effects of exposure to lack of sleep and extreme cold exposure). --Right now, all this information is pretty much in its infancy, and they are reading it to see, where energy is coming from, how 'potent' it still is, after it's 4 million years of travelling, and to determine wether our universe is expanding or receding. -They're pretty sure, if not positive, it's still expanding at a phenomenal rate. --O.K.- I think that's enough of blowing my own mind, trying to explain for one night. Anyhow, that's a little in depth look at some of the stuff, that we are involved in supporting down here. At the end of this blog, I have some pictures of the brand new telescope that Cori is helping to build down here. This thing is slated to be the Einstein of Telescopes, and will be able to read energy from the Big Bang like it's never been seen before, and possibly redefine some science as we know it! Until next time...............