There is an image of our infant universe on your phone at 400,000 years old and when you peer at it from time to time, I wonder if you are checking up in case things take a wrong turn, diverting the universe from its path to our current reality.
Andrew Jaffe is a cosmologist and astrophysicist with a passion for the arts. He is currently building a time machine with one collaborator and another with 400 others, deciphering signals from the early Universe received by the Planck Surveyor Satellite.