Matt Gialich

Light, what I'm getting at there is when we talk about these equations, though, the details matter, right?

When we say light travels at a constant speed, we're referring to light in a vacuum, right?

And so all of these ways we describe this science, again, those variables are the important piece of it.

And if we forget about those other variables, we lead ourselves to believe falsehoods that are not true.

That's what it's called.

I know very little about background radiation, right?

So I talked with... So there was a Nobel Prize awarded on this.

I think the scientific mission was...

was in the early 90s and it was spacecraft that went out and mapped this as the background radiation of the universe.

This was the famous story that was found, maybe it's just famous to radio engineers that when I went to school of,

It was these guys on a military base, and I remember exactly what they were doing.

They had this antenna, they had this radio telescope they were looking at things with, and they kept seeing noise on the telescope.

And they thought it was birds nesting in the telescope.

So they kept cleaning it out and cleaning it out and going like, what the fuck?

Why is this thing noisy?

And checked everything.

And what they realized is their instrument was perfectly fine.

What they were viewing was the background radiation of the universe.

And that apparently, according to physicists, comes from the beginning of the Big Bang.

Like, don't ask me how or why.