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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 23

definite amount of radiation left over from that explosion. This radiation
should be detectable and, furthermore, it should be uniform throughout the
universe.
Within two decades, observational proof of Gamov's conjecture was
forthcoming. In 1965, two researchers by the name of Arno Penzias and
Robert Wilson discovered a form of radiation hitherto unnoticed. Called
"cosmic background radiation", it was unlike anything coming from
anywhere else in the universe for it was extraordinarily uniform. It was nei-
ther localized nor did it have a defi-
nite source; instead, it was distributed
equally everywhere. It was soon real-
ized that this radiation was the echo
of the Big Bang, still reverberating
since the first moments of that great
explosion. Gamov had been spot-on
for the frequency of the radiation was
nearly the same value that scientists
had predicted it would be. Penzias
The cosmic background radiation discov-
and Wilson were awarded a Nobel ered by Penzias and Wilson is regarded
prize for their discovery. as incontrovertible evidence of the Big
Bang by the scientific world.
In 1989, George Smoot and his
NASA team sent a satellite into space. Called the "Cosmic Background
Emission Explorer" (COBE), it took only eight minutes for the sensitive in-
struments on board the satellite to detect and confirm the levels of radia-
tion reported by Penzias and Wilson. These results conclusively demon-
strated the existence of the hot, dense form remaining from the explosion
out of which the universe came into being. Most scientists acknowledged
that COBE had successfully captured the remnants of the Big Bang.
More evidence for the Big Bang was forthcoming. One piece had to do
with the relative amounts of hydrogen and helium in the universe.
Observations indicated that the mix of these two elements in the universe
was in accord with theoretical calculations of what should have been re-
mained after the Big Bang. That drove another stake into the heart of the