ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29931, 19 September 1962, Page 20

ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE

Possible Clue Found

(N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copyright) SYDNEY. Sept. 16. Two scientists of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation have discovered the existence of magnetic fields in outer space—a possible clue to the riddle of the Origin of the universe. According to a statement in Sydney, by the chief of the t adiophysics division (Dr. E. G. Bowen), the scientists made the discovery using the new radio-telescope at Parkes, in mid-western New South Wales. The two scientists are Messrs Brian Cooper, an Australian, and Marcus Price, an American. Mr Cooper, a graduate of Sydney University, is a senior member of the C.5.1.R.0.’s radio-physics division and Mr Price is working there under a Fulbright Scholarship. Dr. Bowen's statement said the two men made the discovery while studying radio waves from a mysterious gas-shrouded galaxy called Centaurus "A"—2o million light years away from earth. He said the discoveries could test conflicting theories about the origin of the universe—the “big bang" against the “steady state’’ theory.