Big Bang—A Planned Event

DISCOVERY OF GOD Most astronomers believe the universe began with a massive explosion. Some think this was a chaotic mess, occurring at different speeds in different places, giving rise to great swirls of matter. Others see it as a homogeneous event, sending newly formed matter out in all directions at the same speed. However, the new findings indicate that the Big Bang was smoother than the ‘homogeneous school’ had expected. ‘It appears,’ said Dr Smoot, that ‘there was no explosion such as a Super Nova (large exploding star), but rather some energy release which we don’t understand yet. ‘We’re really giving added weight to the Big Bang theory. But it is an infinitely more complex process than the originators conceived.’” (Washington, December 10 [Reuters]) Background Radiation The two scientists, Dr. Richard Muller and Dr. George Smoot of the University of California base their ideas on readings of background radiation detected by sensitive instruments aboard the NASA U-2 aircraft at an altitude of 20,000 meters. This plane, a type that was most famous for spy flights over the Soviet Union and Cuba in the late 1950s and early 1960s, is also used for photography of agricultural and Earth resources, NASA said. Background microwave radiation, discovered in 1965, is thought to be the heat left over after the bang. But U-2 fighters found that the radiation was the same in all the sky sectors, indicating no central core of the