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Janus
5th October 2006, 00:23
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 is awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot for their discovery of the basic form of the cosmic microwave background radiation as well as its small variations in different directions. The very detailed observations that the Laureates have carried out from the COBE satellite have played a major role in the development of modern cosmology into a precise
science.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics...s/2006/info.pdf (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/info.pdf)
Janus
5th October 2006, 00:25
More advanced info. concerning COBE, cosmic waves,etc. for you scientists out there. :P

More advanced stuff (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/phyadv06.pdf)
LSD
5th October 2006, 07:47
Don't tell Trotsky! :D
Janus
5th October 2006, 08:24
More like don't tell Ned Wright. :P
Janus
5th October 2006, 08:29
I just found this great link that gives a less technical explanation of this stuff for the non-cosmologists here.

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html