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Article #7487Re: background radiation
From: Matthew P Wiener
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1986 14:34
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1986 14:34
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Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: In article <5397@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >The original interpretation of the "isotropic background black-body >radiation" as being cosmic rather than local was largely due to its >isotropic nature (so far as had been measured initially). Largely? I thought the closeness to theoretical expectations was rather important. >Now that the phenomenon is taken for granted to be cosmic and not local, >the anisotropy that newer measurements have turned up is taken to indi- >cate absolute motion with respect to the cosmos. Well, then, what do you interpret it as? Somebody sending us a message? ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720 "Do not believe astrophysical observations until confirmed by theory."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!styx!twg-ap!amdahl!pyramid!decwrl!ucbvax!cartan!brahms!weemba From: weemba@brahms (Matthew P Wiener) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: background radiation Message-ID: <300@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 15-Nov-86 09:34:34 EST Article-I.D.: cartan.300 Posted: Sat Nov 15 09:34:34 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Nov-86 01:55:05 EST References: <1388@trwrb.UUCP> <546@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <1167@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <3422@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <5397@brl-smoke.ARPA> Sender: daemon@cartan.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P Wiener) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18