http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/03/all-good-things-come-from-the-cosmic-microwave-background/ Blogging one sidereal day at a time Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:28:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/03/all-good-things-come-from-the-cosmic-microwave-background/comment-page-1/#comment-3134 Chris Lintott’s Universe » Blind Light Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:08:26 +0000 http://www.starstryder.com/2007/07/03/all-good-things-come-from-the-cosmic-microwave-background/#comment-3134 [...] Looking back to the early days of the Universe’s history, we’re like the observers outside the box. The light of the CMB appears to have been emitted from the points where it was scattered in our direction. So just as the edge of Gormley’s box seems to be glowing, so it appears that the Universe of 300,000 years after the Big Bang emitted light which travelled all the way to us today. We see the light as emitted from a surface, like the edge of the box, and we can see all sorts of features in this surface. [...] [...] Looking back to the early days of the Universe’s history, we’re like the observers outside the box. The light of the CMB appears to have been emitted from the points where it was scattered in our direction. So just as the edge of Gormley’s box seems to be glowing, so it appears that the Universe of 300,000 years after the Big Bang emitted light which travelled all the way to us today. We see the light as emitted from a surface, like the edge of the box, and we can see all sorts of features in this surface. [...]

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