Another balloon-borne experiment recording relic radiation from the Big Bang has found evidence that the universe is flat. The experiment, known as MAXIMA (Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array), detected tiny fluctuations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background. That’s the radiation associated with the explosive birth of the universe.
Over billions of years, this radiation has cooled to microwave energies.
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