The big bang on your TV: Not sure if this is common knowledge, but it was certainly new to me. All Sagan-ites like Johannes will perhaps chuckle at my being sooo late.... ;)
Here goes: "Cosmologically speaking, the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) is the oldest light in the Universe and provides an opportunity to directly measure the characteristics of the young Universe." The cool thing is that you can pick up CMB - and watch it - on your TV: "CMB photons account for about 99% of all photons that exist, and fill all of space at a density of about 400 CMB photons per cubic centimetre. Every second some 10 million million photons per square centimetre pass a given point in space. Even your TV aerial is a crude CMB detector, with a few percent of TV “snow” being due to CMB photons". Read more here: Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
