In 1964, Drs. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Labs encountered continuous static on certain microwave frequencies. Rotating their antenna in a vain attempt to remove the noise, they realized it was coming from
all directions -- permeating the universe. Physicists hailed this as the first observational evidence of the Big Bang known as "cosmic background radiation" or "the radio echo of creation."
Penzias saw the philosophical significance in his discovery. ". . . [T]he best data we have," he said, "are exactly what I would have predicted, had I had nothing to go on but
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