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The way that I visualize it, is to consider a rubber balloon filled with water on the end of piece of string. Now if you spin the balloon around you head, then it deforms into an egg-shape whose "points" represent the tides. One of the pointed ends of the oval balloon coincides with where the...

Question Estimate the current number of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons there are now, per cubic meter, given that the mean photon energy of a blackbody distribution is about 2.70kT. Method http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_function" gives the energy density (i.e. energy per...