In 1963, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson worked for Bell Telephone Labs in New Jersey setting up a radio transmitter, but they kept hearing static. They thought it was an interference caused by pigeon droppings, but Penzias and Wilson realized that the noise was a signal. Robert Dicke and Dave Wilkinson at Princeton University were looking for a way to detect radiation that was possibly left behind from the Big Bang. The radiation Penzias and Wilson detected matched perfectly for what Dicke and Wilkinson were looking for. This cosmic radiation led scientists to theorize that the Big Bang theory is correct because the universe is filled with background radiation left
In 1963, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson worked for Bell Telephone Labs in New Jersey setting up a radio transmitter, but they kept hearing static. They thought it was an interference caused by pigeon droppings, but Penzias and Wilson realized that the noise was a signal. Robert Dicke and Dave Wilkinson at Princeton University were looking for a way to detect radiation that was possibly left behind from the Big Bang. The radiation Penzias and Wilson detected matched perfectly for what Dicke and Wilkinson were looking for. This cosmic radiation led scientists to theorize that the Big Bang theory is correct because the universe is filled with background radiation left