(July 8, 2017 at 4:18 pm)Alex K Wrote: Iirc, Penzias and Wilson were not actually performing the measurements in order to discover the CMB, but to reduce the noise of their antenna?That's true. That's where the thing with the pigeon poop comes in. The noise continued even after they removed it, then a colleague showed them some papers and they said you know what, this isn't noise we're dealing with. It's this cosmic background.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse got the cheese.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
