In 1965, two Bell Labs engineers thought pigeons were messing with their radio antenna. The annoying static they couldn't eliminate turned out to be the echo of the Big Bang itself—cosmic microwave background radiation that had been traveling through space for 13.8 billion years. This is the story of how the most important discovery in cosmology happened while trying to make better phone calls. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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