Fifty years ago today, physicists Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered the background noise of the universe they eventually pinned down as the echo of the Big Bang, the first direct evidence of that theory.
The discovery was accidental, and the two men tried every other explanation they could think of before being driven to the Big Bang hypothesis. That's often how science works.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment