Sentences with phrase «background radiation left»

The Princeton researchers were pursuing an idea that had been suggested in the 1940s by the Russian - born astrophysicist George Gamow that if you looked deep enough into space you should find some cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.

NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) is currently at this spot measuring the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.

There are contributions from interstellar matter, from the three - degree - Kelvin background radiation left over from the early history of the universe, from noise that is fundamentally associated with the operation of any detector and from the absorption of radiation by the earth's atmosphere.

The participants were M.I.T.'s Alan Guth, the developer of the inflationary model of the universe, Lawrence Krauss, a frequent contributor to Scientific American magazine and director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, who studies the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang and Scott Dodelson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who studies the origin and structure of the universe.

The time asymmetry will then explain why in the beginning the universe was so uniform, as evinced by the microwave background radiation left over from the big bang, whereas the end of the universe must be messy.

Rapid inflation in every direction also explained why the universe we now observe is so homogeneous, and why the temperature of the background radiation left over from that primordial blast is uniform, in every patch of the sky, to one part in 100,000.

Other bubble universes might be detected in the subtle temperature variations of the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang of our own universe.

The balloon - borne microwave telescope (called «Boomerang») examined the cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang.The angular power spectrum showed a peak value at exactly the value predicted by the inflationary hot Big Bang model dominated by cold dark matter.

Not exact matches

«Cosmic background radiation is well explained as radiation left over from an early stage in the development of the universe, and its discovery is considered a landmark test of the Big Bang model of the universe.»

The puzzle emerged after astronomers measured the cosmic microwave background — a bath of radiation, left over from the Big Bang — and found only slight variations in its temperature across the entire sky.

While conventional quantum theory predicts that random quantum fluctuations in the early universe have left celestial imprints, pilot wave theory predicts fluctuations that are less random, leaving slightly different wrinkles in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

Kashlinsky and his team noticed this phenomenon while studying the cosmic microwave background, radiation left over from just after the Big Bang.

The only reasonable interpretation is that this background is radiation left over from an early hot and dense state.

Inflation - era gravity waves, which alternately stretch and compress space as they pass through, would leave a permanent mark in the cosmic radiation background, adding a twist to the CMB polarization.

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.

For example, if the matter - energy density at the time of inflation was of the order of magnitude that is characteristic of string theory, then a great deal of gravitational radiation would have been produced at that time, and it would have left an imprint on the cosmic microwave background.

And in 1969, scientists noticed a strange distortion in the ubiquitous cosmic microwave background, radiation thought to be left over from the Big Bang.

Thanks to the dry, clear atmosphere at the South Pole, SPT is better able to «look» at the cosmic microwave background — the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang — and map out the location of galaxy clusters, which are hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together gravitationally and among the largest objects in the universe.

The place to look for such a scar is the cosmic microwave background — the all - pervasive radiation left over from the Big Bang.

According to standard physics, cosmic rays created outside our galaxy with energies greater than about 1020 electronvolts (eV) should not reach Earth at those energies: as they travel over such vast regions of space they should lose energy because of collisions with photons of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the radiation left over from the big bang.

An accurate measurement of the EBL is as fundamental to cosmology as measuring the heat radiation left over from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave background) at radio wavelengths.

The latest study of the afterglow of the big bang — the so - called cosmic microwave background radiation — confirms even more precisely the standard model of cosmology — and that's a victory for the theory — but it leaves researchers with no discrepancies that might point to a deeper understanding.

The response was proportional to radiation dose, and in the most contaminated regions, the leaf loss was 40 percent less than in control regions in Ukraine with normal background radiation levels.

A statistical analysis of the weight loss of each leaf litter sample after those nine months showed that higher background radiation was associated with less weight loss.

They set out to assess the rate at which plant material decomposed as a function of background radiation, placing hundreds of samples of uncontaminated leaf litter (pine needles and oak, maple and birch leaves) in mesh bags throughout the area.

Light basically didn't exist, and the hydrogen gas that made up the majority of the interstellar medium was virtually indistinguishable from the cosmic background radiation, left over from the Big Bang.

The theory was that sudden inflation, based on Einstein's theory of relativity, should cause an onslaught of gravitational waves that ultimately would change the polarity of the background radiation, leaving behind a distinctive swirling pattern.

The researchers used radio telescopes at the South Pole to stare at the cosmic microwave background radiation — a faint afterglow left over from the big bang that permeates the universe.

Trained as a theoretical physicist, Wolfe and Rainer Kurt Sachs first showed how density fluctuations in an expanding universe affect the thermal radiation left by the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background radiation.

The extremely dry, cold air is perfectly suited for observing Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation - the faint light signature left by the Big Bang that brought the universe into being nearly 14 billion years ago.

However, it's one of the best spots on the planet for surveying the faint cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation left over from the Big Bang.

After ten days, only the background radiation was left.

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.

The cosmic background radiation is about 3K so without somehow shading a surface against the warm glow left over from the big bang that's as cold as it gets.

But, if we leave the fission products alone for a few hundred years, they will decay to normal background levels of radiation (Safe enough we don't need to worry about them as much).