Back to New Jersey, Where the Universe Began
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On a field just below the summit of Crawford Hill, the highest point in Monmouth County, N.J., almost within sight of the skyscrapers of Manhattan, sits a cluster of shacks and sheds. Next to them is the Holmdel Horn Antenna, a radio telescope somewhat resembling the scoop of a giant steam shovel: an aluminum box 20 feet square at the mouth and tapering to an eight-inch opening, through which the radio waves are funneled into the “cab,” a wooden hut on stilts. From a distance, the whole site could be mistaken for an old mining camp you might come across in Montana or Idaho.
- Applies a deep time evolutionary perspective to: Science
- Learning Stages: Adult Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, Secondary 9 - 12
- Type: Article
- Keywords: Cosmic Evolution, Cosmic Background Radiation,
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- Posted By: Jennifer Morgan
- Date Added: September 14, 2023
I so enjoyed this article. How exciting to be a young scientist making a discovery for the first time. I particularly enjoyed the comment about “a preposterous universe”. Weighing the Universe sounds preposterous to me. Reading about such things excites my imagination and curiosity.
“Continuing studies of the cosmic microwaves, along with regular astronomy, have cemented a view of what is sometimes called “a preposterous universe,” of which atomic matter — the stuff of stars and people — composes only 5 percent by weight.”