This afterglow is called
cosmic microwave background radiation.
The glow, called
cosmic microwave background radiation, carried an imprint of large waves to the detectors on Earth.
The aim of Romalis' project, "A Test of CPT Symmetry Using a New [K-.sup.3] He Self-Compensating Magnetometer," is to perform a high-precision test of combined charge conjugation, parity inversion, and time reversal (CPT) invariance and local Lorentz invariance by comparing the Larmor precession frequencies of potassium (K) and helium 3 ([He.sup.3]) atoms in the same cell as a function of time, i.e., the daily rotation of the Earth about its axis and the movement of the Earth relative to the
cosmic microwave background radiation. The experiment will improve the existing tests of these important fundamental symmetries of nature by a factor of 1000 and should provide tests of various theories of quantum gravity, such as string theory, which predict violations of CPT and Lorentz invariance.
of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, along with software developed there, helped obtain the most detailed measurements yet of
cosmic microwave background radiation. The results were recently released by the international BOOMERANG consortium, led by Andrew Lange of the California Institute of Technology and Paolo Bernardis of the University of Rome.
This is due in part to the scarcity of events that can accelerate particles to such enormous energies, and partly because these particles lose energy when they collide with the ever-present
cosmic microwave background radiation.
Planck's result, reported in a paper published online May 10 at arXiv.org, is based on measurements of the
cosmic microwave background radiation, ancient light that originated just 380,000 years after the Big Bang.
In 2001, Cramer wrote a science-based column for Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine describing the likely sound of the Big Bang based on
cosmic microwave background radiation observations taken from balloon experiments and satellites.
I first read about the Holmdel Horn Antenna (and the discovery of
cosmic microwave background radiation) when I read The Red Limit by Timothy Ferris back in the mid-1980s.
Caption: Patterns in the
cosmic microwave background radiation (coloring shows temperature differences) provide clues to how matter was distributed when the cosmos was young, allowing scientists to infer properties of the universe.
WMAP has been mapping the
cosmic microwave background radiation that wallpapers the sky.
