On 5/27/14, 1:50 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:

Again, at low multipoles there is LESS power, i.e. the CMB is SMOOTHER
than one would otherwise expect. It seems rather a stretch to think
that some clumpy phase during BBN (for which there is no evidence
whatsoever) just happens to be the right size at the right place to
smooth out the CMB.


Smoothing out the Black Body CMB does not make sense.
Black Body is smooth in itself, but perturbed by other factors.
This may be reflected in:
Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5076 at low multipoles.

See figure 1."Planck foreground-subtracted temperature power spectrum--"
The red line shows the temperature spectrum
for the best-fit base LAMBDACDM cosmology
and it is not good at low multipoles

The CMB at 2.725K 160.6 GHz represents a Black Body
from zero to infinity GHz
Planck maps the sky in 30-857 GHz range
CMB extends beyond this range.
this is evident from the ARCADE data
http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.0569
that measures CMB at .02 - 100 GHz
and indicates an anomaly at .02-1 GHz
that has a WIMP dark matter interpretation.
But, other interpretations including a CMB background clumpy phase
are not ruled out.

WMAP observed CMB in 23 GHz to 94 GHz range
much different than Planck range
that in itself makes mapping WMAP to Planck CMB results problematic.

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