PPT Slide
3K Microwave Background Radiation
In 1964, Robert Dicke, James Peebles, Peter Roll and David Wilkinson at Princeton calculated thet the cooling from a Big Bang should leave the Universe at a temperature K today….
Just as they were building an instrument to search for the predicted radiation (in the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum - Wien’s Law!), Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias at AT&T Bell Labs detected a static noise during a survey of the sky?
Why would AT&T be doing this kind of work?