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A Poor Man’s CMB Primer: Cosmic Acoustics

September 24, 2016
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 Before decoupling, photons and charged particles were in good thermal contact: though the primordial plasma might have varied in temperature…
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A Poor Man’s CMB Primer: Bumps on a Blackbody

October 5, 2015
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 Astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background in 1965. They were not looking for it.They were…
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