Coldest Place in the Universe

Chris Gondek writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on how NASA has released a high-quality image of the coldest place found in the universe. Five thousand light years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus, the nebula, a gas cloud formed from a dying star, has a temperature of minus 272 degrees. It is only one degree warmer than absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature, when atoms cease to vibrate and radiate no heat whatsoever. This radiation is the remnant of the Big Bang, the explosion which forged the universe in trillion-degree temperatures. More than 11 billion years later, this heat has cooled to minus 270 degrees, but is still detectable."

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yahoo for the big bang _THEORY_

[Anonymous Coward]

i'm not one to burst bubbles (or eggs for that matter) but the big bang theroy... is in fact _still a theory_. not a fact. hopefully i didn't read this news article wrong, but it seems taht evolution is taught too much as fact in schools as "this is how the earth was made into how it is"... not "this is how we /think/ the earth was made" entropy and evolution can never co-exist

Big Bang?

[xfs]

"This radiation is the remnant of the Big Bang..."

Isn't that just a theory? Does this finding prove the theory in some way?

Hrm

[VirexEye]

"This radiation is the remnant of the Big Bang, the explosion which forged the universe in trillion-degree temperatures. More than 11 billion years later, this heat has cooled to minus 270 degrees, but is still detectable."

When was the Big Bang theory proven and the guesstimation of 11 billion years determined to be fact? Does it bother anyone else that so many modern day theories are presented as fact so often that the general public doesn't stop to question but simply accepts these theories and statistics as factual truths?

I'm not saying these kinds of statements are right or wrong but I for one am tired of talking to people who will bite my head off if these theories are questioned in any way.