The Music of the Big Bang The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Balbi, Amedeo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Astronomers’ Universe,
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four d...