Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in the History of Science
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Why Didn't People Look at Them More Closely?
i briefly touched on this, in fact, with my conversation with paul recently. And er, something i hadn't thought about, butth, the c m b was discovered ind 60 64. Sixeighty four 65. And then there was this long time period before people thought, hay, we can actually maybe do some experd look at the stuff a little bit more closely. and that's quite a long timeit was almost, what, you cold probably count on maybe one of at most two hands,. any of the observers who were interestedand soe. Why do you think that was? Well, i think it's sort of prejudice in the field that it was nothing to
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