"It will never give you the real final answer about the real Big Bang and real time," he said. "But if you study it, you may discover something, and you may be able to ask more intelligent questions."

Most of what we know about the universe, from its age to its size to how it began in a Big Bang, has been found out through telescopes.

I guess for the Chinese people it's all about celebrating this occasion with the biggest bang possible - and it was a big bang indeed!