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On the observational side, by far the most important development has been the measurement of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation by COBE (the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite)

ALL PERSONS WANT TO BE IMPORTANT, BUT NOT ALL PERSONS RECEVE IMPORTANCE.

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Ayrıca, yeni kuramsal ve gözlemsel sonuçlan ekleyerek kitabı güncelleme fırsatı bulmuş olduk. Zamanın Daha Kısa Tarihi, fizik kuvvetlerini birleştiren eksiksiz bir kuramın bulunmasıyla ilgili son gelişmeleri de anlatıyor. Özellikle sicim kuramında meydana gelen gelişmeleri ve fizik kuramlarının birliğine işaret eden görünürde farklı kuramların benzerliklerini ya da "ikiliğini" anlatıyor. Gözlemsel açıdan, Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) ve Hubble Uzay Teleskopu tarafından yapılan yeni ve önemli gözlemleri de kitapta bulacaksınız.

Experiments with the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite, which was launched in 1989, showed in 1990 with overwhelming precision what was already known from previous experiments-that the cosmic background radiation filling the universe has all the properties of blackbody radiation at absolute temperature 2.735 degrees, save some tiny deviations. It would be very surprising if Earth were at rest with respect to this radiation. The velocity of Earth relative to it was first measured in 1977 from an airplane by investigating the influence of the Doppler effect (fig. 57). The blackbody radiation as received by an observer who moves relative to it displays what is called a "dipolar asymmetry": The radiation coming from the direction in which the observer moves is shifted to higher frequencies, the radiation from the opposite direction to lower frequencies. This shift has the remarkable property that the radiation arriving from any direction has all the properties of a blackbody radiation; only the temperature is shifted-to higher values in front, to lower in the rear. By measuring this temperature difference of about .0035 Celsius, scientists have established that the solar system is moving toward the constellation Leo with a velocity of of approximately 250 miles per second relative to the background radiation. By properly adding velocities, it follows that the Milky Way itself moves at a speed of about 500 miles per second relative to the background radiation.

Burnham’s comment, offered in 1992, came in response to the discovery of the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) by the COBE satellite, providing another dramatic confirmation of the big bang model and its implication of a beginning. Yet it is not only cosmology that has rendered the “God hypothesis” newly respectable. As one surveys several classes of evidence from the natural sciences—cosmology, astronomy, physics, biochemistry, molecular biology, and paleontology—the God hypothesis emerges as an explanation with unique scope and power. Theism explains an ensemble of metaphysically significant events in the history of the universe and life more simply, more adequately, and more comprehensively than major competing metaphysical systems, including not only materialism and naturalism, but also pantheism and deism

For the wedding weekend, Andrew was staying at her grandmother’s house while she stayed in her childhood bedroom—it was the house rule that only married couples could co-bed. She had gone over there to visit him and say good night and they’d ended up having silent, frantic sex, during which Andrew kept saying, “Take it, you rich bitch. Take it, you fucking JAP.” Their relationship was over soon after that. Not that Jenny disagreed with his assessment, or his disgust. But she’d been exposed, and he’d spat where she was vulnerable, and then there were his statutory crimes, and then there was his interest in polyamory, decades before it became Brooklyn de rigueur, and so it had to end.

COBE discovered the quantum fluctuations that were generated when the Universe was roughly the size of a grain of sand, and which are ultimately the origin of you,

That is, the infrared pictures taken by COBE point to the existence of matter from the very early universe that would ultimately form into galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

In 1989 the search for these ripples was intensified when NASA launched the $200 million satellite aptly called COBE for Cosmic Background Explorer. Carrying extremely sensitive instruments, COBE was able to see whether or not these ripples actually existed in the background radiation and how precise they were.