Sentences with phrase «background radiation gives»

This visualisation of eddies in cosmic background radiation gives a glimpse into the moments after the big bang

Not exact matches

The big bang is proven fact since the sixties when the first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the scientists that detected the background radiation that was theorized to exist, then the rest of the work done since then culminating most recently to 2006 when the Nobel Peace Prize was given to two American scientists.

Inflation would generate gravitational waves, giving a subtle twist to the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the ubiquitous whisper of radiation left over from the Big Bang.

By measuring subtle variations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the remnant radiation from the early universe that pervades the sky, WMAP refined the estimated age of the universe (13.7 billion years, give or take), among other key cosmological parameters.

The exhibition title, Astro Noise, refers to the faint background disturbance of thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang and is the name Edward Snowden gave to an encrypted file containing evidence of mass surveillance by the National Security Agency that he shared with Poitras in 2013.

Re: joshv (# 35), I gave examples (mass of universe / galaxies) and can add more: age of the universe, age of stars, fusion sequences within stars, elemental makeup of different regions of a star, galactic rotation speeds, ~ 3K background radiation... there's lots.

And remember, we are talking about an additional radiation exposure in the realm of 0.0002 mSv for those living near a nuclear power plant, versus a background level of 2 to 4 mSv (depending on where you live) due to everything from cosmic rays to ground - derived radon emission to eating bananas (this last one gives you more radiation than the NPP).