Eavesdropping on the Big Bang

This is a really interesting three-minute video on the story of how decisive evidence was found for the origin of the universe in the Big Bang — a discovery that won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson:

http://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/the-accidental-discovery-of-the-big-bang/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

“Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say ‘supernatural’) plan.”

– Arno Penzias