Creation Day 2: The Stretching of the Raqia The discovery of the original light from the heavenly expanse (raqia) . 74
In 1963, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two scientists in Holmdale, New Jersey, were working on a satellite designed to measure microwaves. When they tested the satellite's antenna, they found mysterious microwaves coming equally from all directions. At first, they thought something was wrong with the antenna. However, after checking and rechecking, they realized that they had discovered something real.
What they discovered was the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, the (raqia) of heaven, the original light leftover from creation when the universe was only 380,000 years old. At that time, stars and galaxies had not yet formed. The baby universe ( the raqia ) consisted of a hot soup of electrons and atomic nuclei. These particles constantly collided with super hot photons that made up the background radiation, which then had a temperature of over 3000 C.
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