{"id":5562,"date":"2024-01-25T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/25\/rip-arno-penzias-co-discoverer-of-the-big-bang-cosmic-background-radiaton\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:42","slug":"rip-arno-penzias-co-discoverer-of-the-big-bang-cosmic-background-radiaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/25\/rip-arno-penzias-co-discoverer-of-the-big-bang-cosmic-background-radiaton\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Arno Penzias &#8212; Co-discoverer of the Big Bang Cosmic Background Radiaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image_1753089300.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"600\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image_1753089300.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Penzias on the right<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>Here it the Penzias Obituary:<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/01\/24\/1226572843\/arno-penzias-obituary-big-bang-theory\"><b>https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/01\/24\/1226572843\/arno-penzias-obituary-big-bang-theory<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>I think this is one of the best troubleshooting events in radio history: they thought at one point that what they were hearing was the result of pigeon poop in the antenna. Turns out they were hearing radiation from the birth of the universe. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b>And here is a wonderful 2014 6 minute podcast with Penzias and his co-discoverer Robert Wilson:<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b> <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/05\/20\/314239930\/big-bangs-afterglow-two-scientists-recall-their-big-discovery\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/05\/20\/314239930\/big-bangs-afterglow-two-scientists-recall-their-big-discovery<\/a><\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penzias on the right Here it the Penzias Obituary: https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/01\/24\/1226572843\/arno-penzias-obituary-big-bang-theory I think this is one of the best troubleshooting events in radio history: they thought at one point that what they were hearing was the result of pigeon poop in the antenna. Turns out they were hearing radiation from the birth of the universe. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/01\/25\/rip-arno-penzias-co-discoverer-of-the-big-bang-cosmic-background-radiaton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Arno Penzias &#8212; Co-discoverer of the Big Bang Cosmic Background Radiaton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,39,30,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-city","category-physics","category-radio-astronomy","category-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}