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Whisper of Creation

Whisper of Creation. By Dr. Harold Williams of Montgomery College Planetarium http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/. Measuring the Beginning. Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBE John C. Mather & George Smoot Physics Nobel Prize 2006

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Whisper of Creation

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  1. Whisper of Creation By Dr. Harold Williams of Montgomery College Planetarium http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/

  2. Measuring the Beginning • Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBE • John C. Mather & George Smoot Physics Nobel Prize 2006 • Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMAP

  3. Famous COBE microwave fluctuation Map

  4. DMR data with dipole subtracted

  5. WMAP microwave fluctuation map

  6. FIRAS COBE spectrumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_law_of_black_body_radiation

  7. COBE & WMAPconclusions • Universe around 2.73 degrees Kelvin. • 13.7 billion ± 200 million years old • TimeSpace curvature of the universe is extremely near to flat not hyperbolic or spherical. • The Hubble constant is 70 (km/s)/Mpc, +2.4/-3.2

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