What Is the Cosmic Background Radiation?

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A Poor Man's CMB Primer. Part 2: The Birth of a Cosmic Background Radiation

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Houahhh! You did a great redaction work! Let me know if you want sometimes help me improve the Cosmological chapter of my book ;-P

It would be a pleasure to collaborated with a talented guy like you! :ok:
 
Nice insights article, bapowell. I had no idea that the number of neutral atoms had to exceed the number of electrons by ~100:1 before the universe became transparent.
 
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