In 1964, two Bell Lab researchers in New Jersey tracked a mysterious radio noise parasitizing their antenna. They first suspected pigeons, but the noise persisted even after they had eliminated them. They had in fact discovered the fossil radiation of the Big Bang, a find that won them the Nobel Prize twelve years later. More
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In 1964, two Bell Lab researchers in New Jersey tracked a mysterious radio noise parasitizing their antenna. They first suspected pigeons, but the noise persisted even after they had eliminated them. They had in fact discovered the fossil radiation of the Big Bang, a find that won them the Nobel Prize twelve years later. More