Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if
not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic
radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the big bang had
to admit that it was more by accident than intention. At first its
discoverers mistook the readings for the disruption caused by the
droppings of pigeons that had nested in their telescope, and yet
they went on to win the Nobel prize. In the mid-1990s New Scientist
writer Marcus Chown drove across America to interview the key
scientists who had made this astonishing discovery. Their account
and Chown's description of their achievement was published to much
acclaim. But now, over a decade later, in this new and fully
revised edition he goes behind the hype and the hysteria to provide
a clear and lively explanation of one of the biggest discoveries in
modern science - and a brilliant picture of what happened next.
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