The First Proof of the Cosmic Microwave Background - Professor Joseph Silk

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Channel: Gresham College · 2015 · Education

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Professor Silk describes how to scientists desperately tried to erase proof of the Cosmic Microwave Background before they knew what they had found: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-primordial-fireball
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