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In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson had built a Dicke radiometer that they intended to use for radio astronomy and satellite communication experiments.

Their equipment kept picking up an excess 3.5k temperature reading that they could not account for.

Penzias and Wilson were fucking pissed, yall. (ok, maybe not pissed, but they were definitely concerned.) They did what they could to try and snuff out this 'noise'.
Just think about it this way: Imagine watching Gavin & Stacey on BBC and constantly hearing a low level hiss through the reception on the T.V. you paid way too much money for that some third world bloke worked way too many hours assembling, but still can't feed his family). Wouldn't you want to figure out what the source of it was, and how to get rid of it? Who wants to hear a low level hiss over Nessa (the main character in the show) and her nuggets of comedic wisdom? Nope. nobody--the noise needed to be eliminated.


soooo.....

They built and rebuilt parts. Insulated and re-insulated parts. Still the 'hiss' continued. Still the signal was ever-present. Let me tell you, those motherfuckers were perplexed! CONFUSED as shit!

The noise would not stop. It was like one of ocean's 'question' threads--always there, but no one could figure out why, bless her heart

Finally, they made a short phone call to some Princeton blokes about this interference that they were trying to get rid of. Of course, the Princeton blokes famously quipped, "Boys, we've been scooped."

You see, 10 miles down the road, in Princeton, some motherfuckers named George Gamow, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman were trying to prove the theory of the "Big Bang", which claims that the Universe was born from a tiny dot in the nothingness and is still expanding today. Moreover, they had predicted that the very first remnants of the "big bang" would reach the earth in the form of microwave background radiation. They had been searching for this radiation for several years.

Penzias and Wilson, a couple of radio astronomers, trying to find out how to reduce 'interference' on their equipment, had discovered the afterbirth of a big, messy, super-violent, octo-mom dimensional beginning to the Universe, and went on the receive the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.

When the big bang happened, it started with an infinitely small 'singularity' where all the contents of our current Universe was squeezed into a space so infinitely tiny, we can't even begin to imagine the scale or lack there of. Think of something unbelievably tiny--say, mdiver's brain. Then reduce that even more. When the expansion began, within 2 seconds, the Universe was several billion billion billion miles across and expanding faster than the speed of light. The residue left over from that period of time was the 3.5k excess temperature that the radio telescopes Penzias and Wilson were trying to ignore.



Is there a cosmic noise in your life that you've been repressing? Is there something that's been nagging at your big, juicy, telescope that you have been trying to snuff out? Is there an obvious background radiation that you see before your eyes that you just haven't been receptive to?

Or perhaps someone close to you?


The afterbirth of the Universe in you is ready for you to sip. Open up and say 'ahhh', you skanks.



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[Edited 5/7/09 11:33am]

For better reception.

Imago said:

What did you edit? Was there a better thread here before this one?

2the9s said:

Speaking of unwanted background noise.

WTF ?

This thread makes me want some hard candy.

DanceWme said:

::: ..just like Rosie Odonnell at a bi-sexual, massive, cosmic expansion :::

Wow.

Please tell me there will be a FL org meet up soon.

I neeeeed to meet you, Imago.

I cant decide whether to fear you or love you.

Imago said:

This thread is better left to my imagination.

RobynC said:

sinisterpentatonic said:

RobynC said:

you might want to wait.

between me and you..he's going through a mid life crisis at the moment. plus, he's spiritually and sexually confused, so you'd be in for one big mess if you were to meet him now.

I never thought that a meld of orger-ology and real science would make something so poetic and readable... I found this fascinating...

Professor Imago could you please lecture us on the extinction of dinosaurs based on the time a certain mushroom of yours impacted the planet and caused them all to sing "The hills are alive..." 'til they expired...

I too have a Dick Radiometer.

RenHoek said:

johnart said:

Imago said:

this is why the hadron super collider actually scares me a little

littlemissG said:

OMG I'm in class, dying laughing

and p.s. i've always been partial to an 'origin of life' theory called
The Big Bang Theory

XxAxX said:

Okay.....I read "hard on super collider".....

rushing07 said:

et tu, boo boo?

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Me too!!


..but that's probably not a good thing is it?

Imago said:

its perfect just perfect

Imago said:

I think the word is "docking" and yes, it is a good thing.

rushing07 said:

Imago said:

I think you've just solved the mystery of the "hiss"...

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

you must be dysexlick or something

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

maybe the galaxies are all goldy bits of jizz spewn across the space time continuum. big old ovum planets and comet sperm crisscrossing paths again and again, sometimes with intriguing results. and if that's so, maybe the original logos, god's first echoing words must have been something like: YEESSSSS!!