Science  Write  Now

leftover electromagnetic radiation                    micro-moments after the universe emerged           

 

dressing all space              thermal black body spectrum simmering at 2.725 Kelvin                                        

fluctuations ~ arteries to this story                  Big Bang theory predicts the early universe 

 

was impetuous             heated              as it expanded              gasses              cooled              

 

// dense raging //neutrons decaying // breaking down // forming

 

nucleosynthesis               assembling visible matter               signs of a starting point   

 

   [        radio telescopes catching noise                        space chattering in the cold      ]

 

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson         cleaning the Holmdel Horn Antenna          still 

 

believing in steady state—smoothed constant density      listening like vessels to the sounds

 

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not interference or pigeons nesting                  ||              but emanating outside of our galaxy 

 

Robert H. Dicke, Jim Peebles and David Wilkinson                astrophysicists                 knew

 

this signature was                     something             immense                 (imagine all of them 

 

standing there with the weight of the universe on their shoulders        outstaring the past)

 

            this young cosmos of hydrogen plasma           possibilities          this map

 

allowing us a key into history               a door              time compass               our futures

 

into those first few instants                  (and maybe)                 opening up to              

 

                                 everything                else                before