This, blue crap, is the Cosmic, Microwave Background Radiation.
It is rather uniform and it comes out of all points of the universe.
Now what it is. You know that light has a certain speed right? (c)
This means that it takes time to reach something somewhere. It takes 1.2 seconds for light to come from the moon, and 8.5 minutes to come from the sun. It takes 3 minutes to reach Mars, at its closest, and I say at its closest because when the planets are on the opposite sites of the sun each, that would be 42 minutes.
The effect of that is that when you look at something far away (or to be more accurate, you are receiving light that has reflected off something far away) you look into the past. The image of the moon we have for example is from 1.2 seconds in the past.
Well, it so happens then, that the microwave background radiation is the resulting of looking so far away into the past, that is nothing more than radiation from the afterglow of the Big Bang itself. In other words, yes it might be a "theory" (as is the atomic one I always point out) but we kind of "see it".
That of cource posses certain problems with members of a certain cult, that still hasn't synchronised itself with western science.
By sheer coincidence one of said members, was George Deutsch, NASA's press officer, Appointed appointed to the position by George W. Bush, apparently he caused quite a stir there and became loveable after he ordered a NASA website designer to add the word "theory" after every occurrence of the phrase Big Bang.
In his memo to the website designer, Mr. Deutsch wrote that the Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion... It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator... This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue."
Thats what he said to the guys who kind of, in the next room, not only kind of see the thing, but design the next mission to increase the resolution.
But thats not the funny thing, the funny thing is that the same guy was also found to have lied about having a B.A. degree in journalism from Texas A&M University. As in, he plain lied. The University was asked and they said "who?" which ended up being the thing he had to resign for.
Complete trainwreck.
