A part of the static you see on "dead" tv is a residual effect of the Universe's creation.

Whether you believe in creationism (snort) or science we can measure the background radiation of the universe, regardless of how you think it got there - it exists. Those commenting that this is BS need so some research on how things work - an old analogue TV picks up electro-mangnetic radiation produced from TV transmission towers and converts it to a picture. The best analogy to what is going on with an old TV is that the radiation picked up by the TV is like picking up a specific stream of radiation (wavelength) like water from a hose - when it concentrated around a specific wavelength we can pick this up as a signal an convert it to a picture. Apart from the specific streams of radiation like TV signals the whole earth is surrounded in a fog of radiation as well - when you tune in between channels what you're seeing is the fog, as opposed to the stream. We can measure the background radiation that exists throughout the entire universe - the stuff not made by mankind it's all around us , all around everything in the known universe in fact. The author points out that 99% of the fog radiation the TV i picking up is man-made and 1% comes from the background radiation that surrounds everything in the universe.

Well after reading all these comments, I'm glad to hear it wasn't Trump's or Obama's fault this time.

Keep ing an open mind. It isn't medication, its science. Good question, great answer, I bought it because, unlike some ppl here, I don't know everything.

Kent, you will be surprised, people got a Nobel prize for this discovery that you call "crap". Of course they don't call it "creation", it's called the Big Bang theory but it is the same thing. The world started with the Big Bang.

I didn't know, but Thomas Begeng gives a good explanation. I don't know how a TV works, so I can't say it's BS. All the people out there saying it's BS because God created everything...I'm a Christian too. But I'm also a scientist. The more I learn about the world at the cellular level and smaller, the more I'm convinced it's not just by chance. It's so incredibly complex just what goes on inside a SINGLE cell...but there's over 30 trillion cells in your body that know where to be, what to do, and who to work with because a complex code each cell contains in your DNA tells it what to be and what to do. There's another 40 trillion cells that belong to single-celled microorganisms in your body that also have their own DNA and a relationship with your cells. All these cells, and organelles, organisms, and biomolecules are made of atoms that seem to behave intelligently due to tiny differences in charge. It's amazing. And I don't believe all of this is going on instead of nothingness just by chance. Why is there even such a thing as energy or charge to allow for it? My point is, science doesn't prove or disprove the existence or non-existence of God. If God is the author of the natural, then doesn't it make sense that He would use natural processes to do His will? Why can't the Big Bang be the method He used to make His building blocks (atoms) for everything else? Because it doesn't state so in Genesis? But later in Genesis He used the natural process of raining and flooding to start over..why not just speak the words and let it be so, like according to how He created everything to begin with? Because it's stories people! Written in a way that everyone can understand and has a moral...not meant to be literal scientific fact. Other parts of the bible??...yes, they are meant to be historical and taken literally. Think about this--If God had revealed the Big Bang to Moses when he was writing the story of creation, do you think Moses would know how to relay the information? Would Moses himself understand without all the other knowledge leading up to the understanding we have today? Would anyone ever believe him? He'd have to write hundreds of books on science before writing Genesis just to get everyone on the same page. Since the Torah, Bible, or Qur'an aren't science books, is it even important? Or is it God's omnificence that's important in the story? Science and the existence of a God, who I choose to believe is Abraham's God, can coexist. Stories meant to explain the unexplainable after we can explain them can't coexist, but it's the morals contained in these stories that tell us who God is. You don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. If learning that everything wasn't created in 6 days shatters your entire theology, maybe you had the wrong big ideas from theology at the center holding it all together?

Jose Adolfo R. Rodriguez, In 1978 The Nobel Prize was rewarded for what you call idiotic. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10216-big-bang-theorists-scoop-nobel-prize-for-physics/

I'm calling bullshiton that..!!!!!

Player tony, I am also a believer, but there is so much new data that shows the earth is so much older than that my friend! Add a few more zeroes!

Thomas Begeng, Well said sir!!

Chris Braun, So well said I am in awe!! Who are you? I am seriously impressed. I am 65 years old and you just put into words what I have struggled to reconcile for decades. Thank you!

Now that real tv is gone no one will ever see it again. I miss my real tv. The flat screen output is sooooo flat. 1D. Not like the rounded screen that gave it depth.

Great question, thank you!

trevor t, Are you sure ?

Absolute zero, technically known as zero kelvins, equals −273.15 degrees Celsius, or -459.67 Fahrenheit, and marks the spot on the thermometer where a system reaches its lowest possible energy or thermal motion. This temperature scale was devised by and named after the physicist Lord Kelvin (William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin British mathematician.)

Did you know that the temperature of the background radiation emanating from the Big Bang that occurred is 3 degrees above absolute zero today, -273.15 deg Celsius or 459.67 Fahrenheit equalling absolute zero?

Truly mind blowing. If I would know everything I wouldn't be doing the quiz every morning to try and improve my mind. It's the sort of info if I were to mention at my next social gathering people might snort in derision. Like they do here. It's entirely credible no matter how mad sounding it might be.

I'm a Christian and I believe in a young earth I believe that the earth is about 6000 years old