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>>2638240
Working in the Antarctic is expensive and cumbersome, not to mention cold as heck. However, two important reasons drew the boomerang team, an international collaboration of thirty-six scientists, to the antipodes. The Antarctic is the coldest place on earth, and as a result it radiates the least energy- its ground radiates the fewest microwaves, and microwaves can swamp tout the weak signal from the farthest reaches of the universe. The colder the instrument and the colder the surroundings, the better the chance of seeing the tiny fluctuations in a faint hiss of microwave noise. But there was another reason that made the Antarctic an ideal laboratory for cosmic microwave background measurements: a quirky wind current. There is a stream of wind that circles the Antarctic If you stand in the right spot and release a balloon in the atmosphere, the balloon will get caught by the win, circle the pole, and return to its launching spot a bit more than a week later. This is precisely what the Boomerang scents did with their telescope.

>>2083617
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