Labels:book | bulletin board | reckoner OCR: Arno A Penzias and Robert W wilson identified the signal as the cosmic background radiation Itis interesting that Penzias and Wilson were led to this idea by the news that Dicke had suggested that one ought to use radiometer to search for the cosmic background Astronomers have studied this radiation in great detail using the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE satellite and number of rocket-launched balloon borne and ground based experiments The cosmic background radiation has two distinctive properties First it is nearly the same ir all directions (As George F Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and his team discovered ir 1992 the variation is just one part per 100 000. The interpretation that the radiation uniformly fills space as predicted in the big bang cosmology Second the spectrum is ...
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