The above article goes on to say that the reason Jansky's discovery had no impact on the scientific world was because astronomers of the day didn't know anything about radio or electronics and engineers didn't know anything about astronomy.

The other possibility is that I was correct when I wrote that what is called the cosmic microwave background is simply static, and that static is not amenable to any form of scientific analysis; in other words, it is a mystery which cannot be scientifically explained, and therefore is of no significance when trying to understand or analyze the universe.

( In my other papers I have pointed out errors that Einstein made, and demonstrated that I was correct about a significant aspect of the universe’s geometry and Einstein was wrong, but there is no doubt that Einstein was very intelligent and that he spent most of his life trying to figure out the universe.)

Einstein agreed with me, that the static being received by radio telescopes (aka radio receivers) was a mystery that is not scientifically analyzable.  If Einstein had thought that what was discovered in 1933, which is now called by the very important “scientific sounding” name of cosmic microwave background, was of any value toward understanding the universe he would not have ignored it.

Clyde Tombaugh agreed with me; he was the astronomer who discovered Pluto, and was continually looking to discover more about space, he would not have ignored Jansky’s discovery, if it actually meant something.

Edwin Hubble agreed with me.  Hubble is the fellow that the Hubble Space Telescope is named after, he was the person who determined that there are other galaxies beyond the Milky Way and who discovered that the universe is expanding.  He would not have ignored Jansky’s discovery if it had meant something.

Those are just a few of the significant people who were spending their lives trying to learn more about the universe in the 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s.  For the present scientific world, and the scientific world from the mid-1960’s on, to suggest that those people and the others around the world whose professions it was to study the universe, could not have understood the significance of Jansky’s discovery, if it had had any analyzable scientific significance, but that two researchers at Bell Telephone, in the mid-1960’s could understand it, is ludicrous.  I do not put down the Bell Telephone guys, I am saying that their area of study, their training, their experience and their knowledge of the universe would not in any way indicate that they should have understood something which Einstein, Tombaugh, Hubble, and the many others whose professions it was to study the universe, did not understand.

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