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Is there Evidence for the Big Bang?
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Big Bang Key PointsHubble's law (redshift of galaxies) and the Doppler effect provide direct evidence for the universe expanding away from our reference…
A Poor Man’s CMB Primer: Cosmic Acoustics
Before decoupling, photons and charged particles were in good thermal contact: though the primordial plasma might have varied in temperature…
A Poor Man’s CMB Primer: Bumps on a Blackbody
Astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background in 1965. They were not looking for it.They were…
A Poor Man’s CMB Primer: The Birth of a Cosmic Background Radiation
The early universe was hot. So hot that nuclei boiled. The great thermal energy of the universe overwhelmed the confining efforts of the…
A Poor Man’s CMB Primer: Orientation of the Universe
This is a picture of the cosmic microwave background:Fig 1. The cosmic microwave background as seen by the European Space Agency's…