Dark Side of the moon to see the beginning of the Universe

Why should we build a giant telescope on the back of the moon? Well, it seems that the dark side of the moon is the only place that human interference has left untouched that also happens to be near us.

The "dark ages" of astronomy refer to a time before stars existed, when clouds of ionized gas cooled as the Universe expanded. During that time, there wa a faint noise that came from hydrogen atoms doing spin-flips, which gives off radio-wavelength signals that astronomers can pick up on.
Kurt Weiler, senior astronomer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory says, ""What happens is that because of the Big Bang there's a background glow. The spin-flip will absorb the glow of the older material and will give us a signature that we can see."

However, this signals are very faint, and can easily be masked by Earth transmissions in the same wavelength. There are now plans to build the Dark Ages Lunar Interferometer, which would be made up of over 100 thousand antennas. The only problem is getting this telescope to the moon, and making it survive the conditions on the Moon.

As plans continue, perhaps this telescope will be feasible. Scientists are now testing a film called polyimide to see if it might work. Finding out about the origins of the Universe will realize a dream that many astronomers had before anyone ever explored the moon. Maybe, just maybe, we'll finally truly know how exactly the the universe start.