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Old May 16th 08, 09:57 AM posted to sci.astro.research
Richard Saam Richard Saam is offline
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Default CMB temperatu cooling down or... heating up???

Steve Willner wrote:
In article ,
writes:
detailed measurement of the CMB temperature up to
the 9-th or 10-th place after the dot?


As someone mentioned, this is far beyond any technology we can
conceive today.

...should we expect CMB heating up rather and NOT cooling


Observations of CN line ratios in distant galaxies indicate that the
microwave background was hotter in the past than it is now.

And further confirmation of CMBR cooling vs universe age:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/A_...rse_9 99.html