Word: layzer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, non-credit pilot program, directed by David R. Layzer '46, professor of Astronomy, will begin this spring...
Previous attempts to resolve the paradox, Layzer said, focused on present conditions in the universe. Some concluded that stars were rapidly receding from the earth and that light was shifted into an invisible part of the spectrum. Others argued that stars have only a limited life-time and that, at a given moment, only a small number will emit visible light...
...Layzer, however, argues that any light from stars less than a billion years old would make an "insignificant" contribution to the brightness or darkness of the sky. The microwave energy from the early universe, he said, is a far more important factor, and only because this is so dispersed and weak is the sky dark...
Astronomers have begun to question his theory, Layzer said. One alternative explanation states that temperatures in he early universe were even higher, approaching a billion degrees...
...alternate theory were true, Layzer said, the intensity of microwave radiation at 300 billon cycles per second should be relatively high. His own concept predicts a much smaller amount. A number of scientists at M.I.T. are presently designing a rocket to measure this energy in the vacuum of space and settle the controversy