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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Background Radiation and Olber's Paradox
- Message-ID: <Nov.5.19.04.05.1992.16813@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 00:04:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.064405.29610@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <3NOV199212473739@csa2.lbl.gov> <1992Nov4.002644.14768@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <Nov.4.14.51.17.1992.27579@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- I wrote:
- > ... The CMBR photons being
- >detected now were emitted ~10 Gyr ago from a 3-sphere around us, of
- >radius such that they get here now. There isn't really a "flash,"
- >but such as it was, we don't see any "further" parts of it. It's
- >all at the same radius. As time goes by, obviously, we are seeing a
- >3-sphere of larger radius.
-
- but clearly I meant a 2-sphere! Well, it was only off by a factor
- of 1.5, pretty close for an astronomer.
-