Big Bang: The Musical

¿Sabías que una pequeña parte, aproximadamente un 1%, de la estática que aparece en la pantalla de las televisiones antiguas cuando no están captando ningún canal procede del Fondo Cósmico de Microondas? Se trata de un débil residuo de radiación cosmológica que ha estado viajando hacia nosotros durante trece mil setecientos millones de años, prácticamente desde el Big Bang. Los muchachos del centro Spitzer de la NASA han producido este vídeo cómico musical que cuenta cómo a veces sería preferible dedicar un rato a ver el Big Bang en vez de ciertos programas que inundan la televisión...

I'm flippin' channels on my TV set.
Haven't found somethin' worth watchin' yet
Suddenly the fuzz is settin' in
It's good old-fashioned entertainment

CHORUS
(Big Bang)
It's been proven to be true
That some percent of static that's bugging you
(Big Bang)
Is radiation (that we can't see)
From the big bang
Big bang
Big Bang on your TV.

Digital televsion doesn't count
They've found a way to keep the signal out
But if your TV set's about to go,
You're watching 14 billion years ago!

Planck found a way to see that light,
Subtracting dust from the pictures of the sky at night.
A microwave patchwork of what it was.
And I can see it in my TV fuzz!

CHORUS

And by scanning the sky and dissecting what they found
Cosmologists believe they know the shape of space around
The static mathematics have been translated to this sound...

With hundreds of channels on cable and broadband,
I'd rather sit at home and watch the universe expand.
If inflation had a station it would be my destination,
Put the flicker of existence on the clicker in my hand

CHORUS

From the big bang
Big bang
Big bang on your TV!