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n. - (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin.

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  • If the upcoming Planck probe can see tensor modes in the CMBR which isn’t according to the ‘default’ simplest inflation that you would expect most versions can’t...
  • Does all energy above the level of the CMBR eventually coalesce back into mass?
  • We were able to set some interesting limits on the CMBR intensity, and we got a few publications from them.
  • Thus we have a finite universe that is curved according to redshift, but flat according to measurements of CMBR.
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