Origin of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in a Chaotic Universe
- 19 June 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (25) , 1669-1671
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.1669
Abstract
If the early universe possessed the maximum degree of irregularity compatible with its present large-scale uniformity and isotropy, dissipation of energy at redshifts would have generated a thermal microwave background with present temperature ∼3°K.
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