U.S. duo win physics Nobel for backing up Big Bang

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Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for work on cosmic radiation which helped pinpoint the age of the universe and supported the Big Bang theory of its birth.

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Their work took Big Bang theory, which contends the universe began 15 billion years ago as a tiny dot that exploded into today's huge system of stars and planets, out of the realm of mathematical equations and into the world of precise science.

When their research was published in 1992, famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking called it the "greatest discovery of the century, if not of all time".

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Smoot told Reuters the Nobel committee called him at 2:45 a.m. Pacific Time after first dialling the wrong number.

"It gives us a common viewpoint on how the world came into being and what our place in it might be," he said of his work.

"It is extremely important for human beings to know their origins and their place in the world," he added.

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[homesick_american 1]

Yay us.

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Yay us.

There are some of us who will be less than pleased with this.

[Mirorgate 0]

Yay us.

There are some of us who will be less than pleased with this.

I can hear the crying already.... but Genesis (which me think is what you are referring to) only describes to some non scientific ppl how present day man was formed.. not how the entirety was. something along those lines you be thinkin?

[homesick_american 1]

Yay us.

There are some of us who will be less than pleased with this.

Why?

[cmartyn 0]

I thunk they shoolda given it 2 the dude who found a nail on the mountain somewerez and saidin it was from the Ark.