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Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples
Afterglow of Creation From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples Author:Marcus Chown This is the story of the cosmic background radiation, the "afterglow" of the Big Bang in which the Universe was born. Fifteen billion years after the event, the afterglow still permeates all of space, making it the oldest relic in creation and providing an imprint of the Universe as it was in its infancy. Chown brilliantly weaves a tale of the s... more »earch for the origins of the Universe. Beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite and what it found, this book uncovers the secrets of the Universe.« less