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    Graduate Duration of the original CMB radiation

    The radiation we see today as the CMBR - was this originally released as a pulse or was it continuous for some length of time ?
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    Graduate Why does light seem to slow down when passing through transparent materials?

    I think the speed of light is always the same and the "slowing down" of light is just another way to say the effective speed of light - for practical purposes you think of it as slowing down. I've read many of the technical explanations of the physics of what be happening, but approaching it...