The services in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Old First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, in the church ... December, 1916

If you think of peering into the depths of the universe as like looking down from the hundredth floor of the Empire State Building (with the hundredth floor representing now and street level representing the moment of the Big Bang), at the time of Wilson and PenziasБЂ™s discovery the most distant galaxies anyone had ever detected were on about the sixtieth floor, and the most distant things-quasars-were on about the twentieth. Penzias and WilsonБЂ™s finding pushed our acquaintance with the visible universe to within half an inch of the sidewalk. Still unaware of what caused the noise, Wilson and Penzias phoned Dicke at Princeton and described their problem to him in the hope that he might suggest a solution. Dicke realized at once what the two young men had found. БЂњWell, boys, weБЂ™ve just been scooped,БЂ«he told his colleagues as he hung up the phone. Soon afterward the Astrophysical Journal published two articles: one by Penzias and Wilson describing their experience with the hiss, the other by DickeБЂ™s team explaining its nature ...»