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1965: PENZIAS AND WILSON
In 1965 Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson of Bell Laboratories
were testing a sensitive horn antenna which was designed for detecting
low levels of microwave radiation. They discovered a low level of
microwave background “noise”, like the low level of electrical noise
which might produce “snow” on a television screen. After unsuccessful
attempts to eliminate it, they pointed their antenna to another part of
the sky to check whether the “noise” was coming from space, and got
the same kind of signal.
Finding no explanations for the origin of the noise, they finally
concluded that it was indeed coming from space, but that it was the
same from all directions. 1
They later realized that they had accidentally confirmed George
Gamow’s predictions made 17 years earlier. They discovered the “echo”
of the Big Bang.
Penzias and Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1978 for their
discovery. Later on, Penzias writes this about his discovery:
Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a Universe which was
created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed
to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one
which has an underlying, one must say, supernatural plan.
Slowly but surely, scientific discoveries were chipping away at the so
called “theory of evolution”.
1992: NASA’S COBE (Cosmic Background explorer)
One of the predictions that were made if the Big Bang theory is to
stand, is that the background radiation should be measurable as a
temperature, and that there should be small variations of temperature
on the order of one part in 10,000.
For years, NASA, tried several times to measure the temperature of
this background radiation but, according to them: “None of our
previous instruments were sensitive enough to measure this small
variation.”
1 http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/penwil.html
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