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Article: New measurements back up Big Bang theory

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Pasadena, Calif.-Working independently, three scientific teams collected remarkably similar data that supports a theory that dovetails with and explains the ignition of the Big Bang conflagration.

Two of the teams floated telescopes into the upper atmosphere on balloons, while the third team placed a telescope on a mountaintop in Chile.

The telescopes measured ripples in a faint glow that exists in space. The glow is thought to be the residual emanations of the fading fireball that is/was the Big Bang itself This glow is called the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and the ripples imprinted on it are seen as units of measurement that relate the size and shape of the ...

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