Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Cosmic Microbacground
The micro background is the most important piece of information we have. It's an incredibleincred amount of information. One thing we learn from the micrave background, as that is incredibly isotropic. You look in all directions in the sky, the temperature is the same in one part. That tells us the universe was incredibly homogeneous. But these tiny fluctuations in temperature as you look in different places in the sky,. they have cular correlations among them that are not completely random. And so we can, you know, our theories cannot predict the exact pattern that we see, but statistically it can. We think they pretty much came from the big bang, or some event near the big
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