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{ 2006 09 26 } | Permalink
The Universe is Old
In 1989, NASA launched a very ambitious project into orbit in the form of a satellite. It was called the “Cosmic Background Explorer” (COBE), a satellite designed to measure radiation from interstellar sources. To the scientific community’s surprise, it detected a large amount of background radiation - coming in from every direction in the universe. What the satellite was detecting was the residual effect of very hot elements, decayed over time. The question is — where did all of this radiation come from? The scientific community’s resounding answer: The Big Bang.
