Sentences with phrase «microwave background so»
Why was the cosmic microwave background so smooth while all the stuff that came after it looked so lumpy?
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So said Dragan Huterer of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the night before the European Space Agency released the highest - resolution map yet of the entire cosmic microwave background (CMB), relic light from the primordial universe.
That light, the so - called cosmic microwave background (CMB), serves as a familiar hunting ground for astronomers who seek to understand the universe in its infancy.
The time asymmetry will then explain why in the beginning the universe was so uniform, as evinced by the microwave background radiation left over from the big bang, whereas the end of the universe must be messy.
Astrophysicists have predicted that this B - mode polarization pattern is recorded ever so faintly in the cosmic microwave background.
These numbers are corroborated by studies of the afterglow of the big bang — the so - called cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- which suggests that our universe is made of roughly 70 % dark energy, 23 % dark matter, and only 4.6 % of ordinary, or baryonic, matter.
The latest study of the afterglow of the big bang — the so - called cosmic microwave background radiation — confirms even more precisely the standard model of cosmology — and that's a victory for the theory — but it leaves researchers with no discrepancies that might point to a deeper understanding.
«We are measuring the expansion rate better than at any point since the afterglow of the Big Bang, known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and that precision is giving us a hint that maybe we aren't getting what we expected and so maybe the universe isn't quite as we had thought.»
PRYKE: About a year ago, we announced that we had detected this so called swirliness, this B - mode in the microwave background polarization pattern.
Watching a lecture by the Physicist Lawrence Krauss, I was struck by the idea that in 100 billion years, there will be no cosmic microwave background and you will look out into the sky with a telescope and only see our galaxy (all other galaxies now being so far beyond the «horizon» as to be undetectable).
In the particular instance of so - called back radiation the reality is that if you point an IR spectrometer up at the night sky photons of far higher energy than the cosmic microwave background are hitting it.