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TUNING INTO THE BIG BANG
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Tuning Into The Big Bang
Age 58, Beaufort, North Carolina, 2002
The picture for this poem is one of my "Big Bang" images as described in this poem. I was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) about this work.
-- This is one poem, from my autobiographical series of poems, that I posted here at WriteSpike. Go to my Stories section for others. They are in chronological order. --
Scientists agreed
a small percentage of static
on an analog TV
was from the Big Bang
it was left-over radiation
- the echo -
from the beginning
of the Universe
so I read up and tuned
my old TV as best as I could
to the cosmic signal
just like a distant station
a famous doctor I had worked with
whose specialty was blood cells
told me that to bring out the detail
"stain was the name of the game"
after experimenting
I found a way
to photograph and then
to enhance the signal
with digital processing
and while I could not be sure
just how much I had captured
the images were like nothing
I had made before
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When I first heard that static on an analog TV was due in part to static from the Big Bang, I thought it was an Urban Legend. But after much research, I confirmed that it really is true. The static is called CMB or Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.