An Interesting Quote

I was reading a book called “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson, and I found this quite funny - and perhaps a little relevant (although maybe not).

“Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”

Big Bang in action! :D

I-Ji Jung

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Awesome book, I remember the quote as well.

Cosmic background microwave radiation perplexes me, I understand that inflationary theory suggests a mechanism for the way that this radiation is dispersed throughout the universe through such a ridiculously fast expansion in such a ridiculously short amount of time. But why? I mean what’s the reason for the universe producing an evenly dispersed level of radiation, does it promote life? Serious questions I’m curious as to what the ‘function’ of it is.

James Glover