books.google.com - For over three millennia, most people could understand the universe only in terms of myth, religion, and philosophy. Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology transformed into a branch of physics. With this remarkably rapid change came a theory that would finally lend empirical support to many long-held beliefs...http://books.google.com/books/about/Cosmology_and_controversy.html?id=eq7TfxZOzSEC&q=cosmic+microwave&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCosmology and controversy