There’s a reason why they call it the big band. The noise is still reverberating around the universe. JP Sent from my iPhone On Sep 4, 2023, at 10:07 AM, Roy Storey via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
Thanks for the share Rick.
Roy - W5TKZ On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:14 AM Rick Hiller via BVARC < bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: Courtesy of Bill, K2TNO….. link at the end. Today's New York Times has an article about a microwave horn antenna built by Bell Labs in the early 1960's. After they finished the original purpose, their scientists observed a curious, persistent receiver noise regardless of where they pointed the antenna. That noise turned out NOT to be instrument error, but instead was the first detection of the "Cosmic Background Radiation," the leftover energy arising from the "Big Bang"-- 13.8 billion years !
The antenna site was visited by the reporter, guided by Dr. Robert Wilson, age 87, who still lives nearby. He and his collaborator received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their finding.
This link is to the article entitled " Back to New Jersey, Where the Universe Began."
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