Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

Prologue: The World through Microwave Eyes

 

PART ONE

The Toughest Measurement in Science

 

1 The Big Bang

2 The Restless Universe

3 The Primeval Fireball

4 Taking the Temperature of the Universe

5 The Ghost Signal at 4,080 Megahertz

6 A Tale of Two Telephone Calls

7 Afterglow of Creation

8 The Toughest Measurement in Science

9 Bumps but No Wiggles

 

PART TWO

The Golden Age of Cosmology

 

10 An Eye Above the Atmosphere

11 The Nine-Minute Spectrum

12 Cosmic Ripples

13 The Hype and the Hysteria

14 The Universe According to COBE

15 The Golden Age of Cosmology

 

Epilogue: Son of COBE

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Index

About the Author

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