Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Thomas Heger Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: There Is No Edge To The Universe Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 05:45:48 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <56672006.3AA7@ix.netcom.com> <5668B7A9.550B@ix.netcom.com> <5668F5C8.19CD@ix.netcom.com> <56691651.4C0F@ix.netcom.com> <605ec460-7d74-4e16-9c8b-2d302481e897@googlegroups.com> <566931FE.74D@ix.netcom.com> <5669D295.6F7B@ix.netcom.com> <566B4633.916@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 6D5rvYW9dzlxdDHu7WeUrQ4xESPnc91k1jH272aX35qBpuH2+0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XxNiOVU8qMJf+leRN2yhxrtkAao= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:280074 sci.physics:540538 sci.physics.relativity:372472 Am 12.12.2015 16:16, schrieb Sam Wormley: > >> The CMB is well explained as radiation left over from an early stage >> in the development of the universe, and its discovery is considered a >> landmark test of the Big Bang model of the universe. When the >> universe was young, before the formation of stars and planets, it was >> denser, much hotter, and filled with a uniform glow from a white-hot >> fog of hydrogen plasma. As the universe expanded, both the plasma and >> the radiation filling it grew cooler. When the universe cooled >> enough, protons and electrons combined to form neutral atoms. These >> atoms could no longer absorb the thermal radiation, and so the >> universe became transparent instead of being an opaque fog. Let's assume the 'big-bang' would have been a light-bulb, switched off 13.8 billion years ago. The remaining light cooled down to micro-waves and that is now received from all direction, since the universe expanded. And this is actually, what they teach in schools and universities. TH