• Canary Islands, 1
• Cape Canaveral, 1, 2
• carbon, 1
• carbon monoxide, 1
• CCDs (charge-coupled devices), 1
• celestial equator, 1
• celestial poles, 1
• Cepheid variables, 1
• Challenger space shuttle, 1
• charge-coupled devices see CCDs
• Cheng, Ed, 1, 2, 3
• Chephren’s pyramid, 1
• Chown, Marcus
  • books by, 1, 2
  • early life and education, 1, 2
  • father, 1
  • grandfather, 1, 2
• Churchill, Manitoba, 1
• COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite
  • attitude control system, 1
  • cold load, 1
  • corroborating experiments, 1
  • cost, 1
  • ‘face of God’ comment, 1, 2
  • launch, 1
  • launcher, 1
  • Nobel Prize, 1, 2
  • orbit, 1
  • planning and building, 1
  • publicity surrounding results, 1, 2
  • results, 1, 2, 3, 4
  • results explained, 1
  • results’ reliability, 1
  • size and shape, 1
  • testing, 1
• Cockroft, John, 1
• cold dark matter see dark matter
• cold loads, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Copernican Principle, 1
• Cosmic Background Explorer satellite see COBE
• cosmic background radiation
  • Adams’ unknowing discovery, 1
• • anisotropy, 1, 2, 3, 4
  • COBE spectrum, 1
  • difficulties with discovery experiments, 1
  • dipole anisotropy of, 1
  • discovery, 1, 2
  • and Earth’s motion, 1
  • in the future, 1
  • Nobel Prize for discovery, 1
  • other experiments, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  • overview of significance, 1
  • power spectrum, 1
  • prediction of existence and properties, 1
  • quadrupole and octupole moments, 1
  • scientists’ fascination with, 1
  • smoothness, 1
  • spectrum bump problems (Berkeley–Nagoya distor tion), 1, 2
  • temperature, 1, 2, 3, 4
  • why not discovered sooner, 1
  • WMAP puzzles, 1
  • WMAP results, 1, 2
  • see also COBE
• cosmic reionisation, 1
• cosmic repulsion, 1, 2
• cosmic ripples, 1, 2, 3
• cosmic strings, 1
• cosmological constant, 1, 2
• Cosmological Principle, 1
  • Perfect Cosmological Principle, 1
• Crick, Francis, 1
• cyanogen, 1