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2022-12-14: How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?

  • 18:09: GNGR11 asks whether it’s possible to detect and map the cosmic neutrino background like what was done with the cosmic microwave background.

2022-09-14: Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?

  • 06:39: ... and neutrinos are connected on cosmic scales by looking at the cosmic microwave background, but that’s another ...

2022-08-17: What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?

  • 04:47: ... measurement comes from Planck satellite data, which mapped the cosmic microwave background. The Planck team measured w = −1.028 ± 0.032. So, while this ...
  • 06:25: ... number. The latter is from Planck satellite measurements of the cosmic microwave background. The current thinking is that one of these measurements has a ...
  • 13:27: ... field may cause a characteristic signature in the stuff of the cosmic microwave background clumps together. But again, no firm conclusions ...
  • 04:47: ... measurement comes from Planck satellite data, which mapped the cosmic microwave background. The Planck team measured w = −1.028 ± 0.032. So, while this is perfectly ...
  • 06:25: ... number. The latter is from Planck satellite measurements of the cosmic microwave background. The current thinking is that one of these measurements has a very subtle ...
  • 13:27: ... field may cause a characteristic signature in the stuff of the cosmic microwave background clumps together. But again, no firm conclusions ...

2022-03-30: Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?

  • 10:48: ... with the radiation that it absorbs - for example, from the cosmic microwave background - then the line between the white hole and black hole becomes ...

2022-03-08: Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?

  • 19:51: ... of galaxies in the universe, and whether they could explain the cosmic microwave background and dark ...

2022-02-10: The Nature of Space and Time AMA

  • 00:03: ... just about to build the machine that would have detected the cosmic microwave background radiation before he was scooped by these two engineers of ...

2022-01-12: How To Simulate The Universe With DFT

  • 18:34: It’s conceivable that they could channel it into a less visible form - perhaps microwave beams sent to hopefully-empty patches of the sky.

2021-12-10: 2021 End of Year AMA!

  • 00:02: ... in it inertialis drive it's a copper container where you bounce uh microwaves around and it um manages to um to accelerate without without ejecting ...

2021-11-10: What If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong?

  • 10:29: ... cosmic microwave background radiation  reveals a lumpiness that tells us how matter ...

2021-08-03: How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology

  • 11:52: ... supernova dark energy measurements and the measurements from the cosmic microwave background - again, covered ...

2021-07-21: How Magnetism Shapes The Universe

  • 06:45: ... detail by the Planck mission, which mapped polarization of the cosmic microwave background - the ubiquitous radiation left over from the big ...

2021-04-13: What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?

  • 04:07: ... density fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background tell us that the gravity of dark matter was pulling matter ...
  • 04:53: ... had a bit more matter than other regions - we see that in the cosmic microwave background from around 300,000 years after the big ...
  • 04:07: ... density fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background tell us that the gravity of dark matter was pulling matter together long ...
  • 04:53: ... had a bit more matter than other regions - we see that in the cosmic microwave background from around 300,000 years after the big ...

2021-03-23: Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

  • 13:22: ... the universe measured at the beginning of the universe with the cosmic microwave background, and in the more modern universe measured with ...

2021-03-16: The NEW Crisis in Cosmology

  • 04:42: ... is to study the oldest light in the   universe - the cosmic microwave background. This  light was released only a few hundred ...

2021-02-24: Does Time Cause Gravity?

  • 10:28: These could be found in the gravitational wave background, but also indirectly through their effect on the cosmic microwave background.

2021-01-19: Can We Break the Universe?

  • 08:06: That’s the frame of reference in which the cosmic microwave background appears still - or un-Doppler-shifted.

2021-01-12: What Happens During a Quantum Jump?

  • 09:09: They then placed these artificial atoms inside a microwave cavity - analogous to the laser, which could cause the “atom” to transition between states.
  • 10:11: And that ability to predict also allowed them to reverse the quantum jumps midflight by adjusting the microwave field during the process.
  • 09:09: They then placed these artificial atoms inside a microwave cavity - analogous to the laser, which could cause the “atom” to transition between states.
  • 10:11: And that ability to predict also allowed them to reverse the quantum jumps midflight by adjusting the microwave field during the process.

2020-06-30: Dissolving an Event Horizon

  • 15:28: MANY of you had a guess at what we might read imprinted on the cosmic microwave background from the previous aeon.

2020-06-15: What Happens After the Universe Ends?

  • 13:16: ... was not completely smooth that could lead to features in the cosmic microwave background ...
  • 15:01: ... us at the Big Bang level, Caed we’re inscribing your name on the Cosmic Microwave Background of the next Universe to continue your glory and to seriously ...
  • 13:16: ... was not completely smooth that could lead to features in the cosmic microwave background ...
  • 15:01: ... us at the Big Bang level, Caed we’re inscribing your name on the Cosmic Microwave Background of the next Universe to continue your glory and to seriously confuse the ...
  • 13:16: ... was not completely smooth that could lead to features in the cosmic microwave background radiation. ...

2020-06-08: Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?

  • 14:44: ... of dark matter - for example in gravitational lensing, in the cosmic microwave background speckles, and in things like the bullet cluster where it ...

2020-05-18: Mapping the Multiverse

  • 15:19: ... system is moving at 368 km/s relative to the rest-frame of the cosmic microwave background radiation - and that's as close as you can define to an ...

2020-05-11: How Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity

  • 15:32: ... of the universe at the most distant point represented by the cosmic microwave background ...

2020-05-04: How We Know The Universe is Ancient

  • 12:25: ... and the expansion rate, and more all from the one source - the cosmic microwave background radiation - the oldest light we can see, released when the ...
  • 12:59: ... on analysis of the cosmic microwave background map produced by the Planck satellite we get the relative ...
  • 12:25: ... and the expansion rate, and more all from the one source - the cosmic microwave background radiation - the oldest light we can see, released when the universe was ...
  • 12:59: ... on analysis of the cosmic microwave background map produced by the Planck satellite we get the relative amounts of ...
  • 12:25: ... and the expansion rate, and more all from the one source - the cosmic microwave background radiation - the oldest light we can see, released when the universe was a mere ...

2019-12-02: Is The Universe Finite?

  • 00:27: This is the cosmic microwave background radiation - the left-over heat-glow from the very early universe.
  • 00:33: We can’t see this microwave light with our eyes, but we can catch it with even a simple radio antenna.
  • 01:19: This is the map of the cosmic microwave background - the CMB - made by the Planck satellite.
  • 09:58: For example, the Planck CMB map required extremely careful subtraction of all other sources of microwave radiation.
  • 00:27: This is the cosmic microwave background radiation - the left-over heat-glow from the very early universe.
  • 01:19: This is the map of the cosmic microwave background - the CMB - made by the Planck satellite.
  • 00:27: This is the cosmic microwave background radiation - the left-over heat-glow from the very early universe.
  • 00:33: We can’t see this microwave light with our eyes, but we can catch it with even a simple radio antenna.
  • 09:58: For example, the Planck CMB map required extremely careful subtraction of all other sources of microwave radiation.

2019-08-19: What Happened Before the Big Bang?

  • 07:14: And we see those fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background.

2019-08-06: What Caused the Big Bang?

  • 11:40: ... to get the sort of evenly distributed temperature we see in the Cosmic Microwave Background, is if lots of these bubbles collide and then have time to ...

2019-07-18: Did Time Start at the Big Bang?

  • 01:46: ... Cosmic Microwave Background is a direct line of sight to the universe as it was Only a ...

2019-06-06: The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions

  • 13:02: ... that the cosmic background radiation wasn't yet stretched to invisible microwave wavelengths?" - actually most of the dark ages would have actually been ...

2019-05-16: The Cosmic Dark Ages

  • 01:34: ... the first time, and we see the light freed at that moment as the cosmic microwave background. THAT is the oldest light that we see – but it would be a ...
  • 05:45: ... than it was emitting. This produced a slight dip in the the cosmic microwave background spectrum. The absorbed wavelength has now been stretched – ...
  • 01:34: ... the first time, and we see the light freed at that moment as the cosmic microwave background. THAT is the oldest light that we see – but it would be a long time ...
  • 05:45: ... than it was emitting. This produced a slight dip in the the cosmic microwave background spectrum. The absorbed wavelength has now been stretched – redshifted – ...

2019-04-24: No Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?

  • 00:03: ... and those masses were the same as measured from the orbits the Cosmic Microwave Background fluctuations also give us a measurement of the relative ...

2019-03-28: Could the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom?

  • 10:58: ... example, in the patterns of the Cosmic Microwave Background, in the baryon acoustic oscillations and in supernovae - ...

2019-03-20: Is Dark Energy Getting Stronger?

  • 03:19: ... observations of the cosmic microwave background reveal the starting conditions of the universe – the balance ...
  • 05:03: The cosmic microwave background is also consistent with Lambda-CDM – but the exact numbers are different.
  • 05:12: In particular, the universe appears to be expanding faster than expected given what we see in the cosmic microwave background.
  • 13:27: ... and/or quasar distances are determined, or even an issue with the cosmic microwave background ...
  • 03:19: ... observations of the cosmic microwave background reveal the starting conditions of the universe – the balance of dark ...
  • 05:03: The cosmic microwave background is also consistent with Lambda-CDM – but the exact numbers are different.
  • 05:12: In particular, the universe appears to be expanding faster than expected given what we see in the cosmic microwave background.
  • 13:27: ... and/or quasar distances are determined, or even an issue with the cosmic microwave background ...
  • 03:19: ... observations of the cosmic microwave background reveal the starting conditions of the universe – the balance of dark energy, ...

2019-03-06: The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines

  • 13:21: OK, and on to comments from our last episode - the Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background!
  • 13:33: Francois Lacombe asks how astronomers distinguish the very small temperature differences in the CMB from the rest of the microwave noise.
  • 13:47: ... contaminating microwaves mostly come from our galaxy - there's a lot from the dust in between the ...
  • 13:21: OK, and on to comments from our last episode - the Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background!
  • 13:33: Francois Lacombe asks how astronomers distinguish the very small temperature differences in the CMB from the rest of the microwave noise.
  • 13:47: ... contaminating microwaves mostly come from our galaxy - there's a lot from the dust in between the ...

2019-02-20: Secrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background

  • 00:08: ... But Around 1% of that buzz is something very different It's the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation The remnants of the heat glow released when the hot ...
  • 02:05: ... explore the intricate patterning Not of the galaxies but of the cosmic microwave background map The image of the universe at the moment of recombination ...
  • 12:34: ... of the Universe So that's how you lay bare the secrets of the cosmic microwave background It's an insane wealth of information f rom what looks like ...
  • 00:08: ... But Around 1% of that buzz is something very different It's the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation The remnants of the heat glow released when the hot dense ...
  • 02:05: ... explore the intricate patterning Not of the galaxies but of the cosmic microwave background map The image of the universe at the moment of recombination We'll see ...
  • 12:34: ... of the Universe So that's how you lay bare the secrets of the cosmic microwave background It's an insane wealth of information f rom what looks like random ...
  • 02:05: ... explore the intricate patterning Not of the galaxies but of the cosmic microwave background map The image of the universe at the moment of recombination We'll see that ...
  • 00:08: ... But Around 1% of that buzz is something very different It's the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation The remnants of the heat glow released when the hot dense early Universe ...

2019-02-07: Sound Waves from the Beginning of Time

  • 07:54: ... sloshing is imprinted in detail on the temperature map of the cosmic microwave background ...

2019-01-24: The Crisis in Cosmology

  • 06:58: I'm talking about the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, the CMB.
  • 07:07: The Cosmic Microwave Background is the remnant heat glow of the universe's initial hot dense state.
  • 06:58: I'm talking about the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, the CMB.
  • 07:07: The Cosmic Microwave Background is the remnant heat glow of the universe's initial hot dense state.
  • 06:58: I'm talking about the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, the CMB.

2019-01-09: Are Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same?

  • 11:32: The second thing to check is the cosmic microwave background.

2018-11-14: Supersymmetric Particle Found?

  • 04:50: When ultra high energy cosmic rays travel through space, they bump into the photons of the cosmic microwave background.

2018-09-12: How Much Information is in the Universe?

  • 06:27: The cosmic microwave background has around 10 to the power of 89 photons across the observable universe.
  • 06:34: So almost all of the information, and for that matter, the entropy in particles is in neutrinos and in the cosmic microwave background photons.
  • 06:27: The cosmic microwave background has around 10 to the power of 89 photons across the observable universe.
  • 06:34: So almost all of the information, and for that matter, the entropy in particles is in neutrinos and in the cosmic microwave background photons.

2018-08-23: How Will the Universe End?

  • 03:31: The greater universe will fade from view, and even the cosmic microwave background will also dim to undetectability within the era of red dwarfs.

2018-07-11: Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model

  • 12:29: ... neutrinos derived from the ice cube experiment or from the cosmic microwave background ...

2018-07-04: Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?

  • 09:49: ... analysis of the cosmic microwave background radiation by the Planck satellite shows that the early rates ...

2018-03-21: Scientists Have Detected the First Stars

  • 01:17: This is the cosmic microwave background radiation, or CMB.

2017-11-08: Zero-Point Energy Demystified

  • 06:33: In the case of the EM drive, the proposal is that microwaves within the drive's resonant cavity push against the quantum vacuum.

2017-10-25: The Missing Mass Mystery

  • 03:36: The second way to calculate the expected baryonic mass is with the cosmic microwave background radiation.
  • 08:27: And again, it makes use of the cosmic microwave background.
  • 03:36: The second way to calculate the expected baryonic mass is with the cosmic microwave background radiation.
  • 08:27: And again, it makes use of the cosmic microwave background.
  • 03:36: The second way to calculate the expected baryonic mass is with the cosmic microwave background radiation.

2017-08-02: Dark Flow

  • 01:05: ... of the cosmic microwave background suggest that galaxy clusters across the cosmos may be moving ...
  • 01:39: It's the frame of reference of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the CMB.
  • 01:49: In all directions, it appears to be the same temperature-- around 2.7 Kelvin-- and hence, the same microwave wavelength.
  • 02:56: So the peculiar motion of galaxies can be defined as motion relative to the cosmic microwave background.
  • 04:01: As a result, when we look at the cosmic microwave background through one of these clusters, we see that its energy is boosted just slightly.
  • 05:17: ... used the WMAP satellite observations of the cosmic microwave background to build up a peculiar velocity map of around 700 clusters in ...
  • 06:38: Planck is the latest cosmic microwave background probe, and it's produced a much more detailed map compared to WMAP.
  • 09:30: ... we may also need a better map of the cosmic microwave background so that we can measure more clusters to greater distances and ...
  • 01:05: ... of the cosmic microwave background suggest that galaxy clusters across the cosmos may be moving ever so ...
  • 01:39: It's the frame of reference of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the CMB.
  • 02:56: So the peculiar motion of galaxies can be defined as motion relative to the cosmic microwave background.
  • 04:01: As a result, when we look at the cosmic microwave background through one of these clusters, we see that its energy is boosted just slightly.
  • 05:17: ... used the WMAP satellite observations of the cosmic microwave background to build up a peculiar velocity map of around 700 clusters in all ...
  • 06:38: Planck is the latest cosmic microwave background probe, and it's produced a much more detailed map compared to WMAP.
  • 09:30: ... we may also need a better map of the cosmic microwave background so that we can measure more clusters to greater distances and high ...
  • 06:38: Planck is the latest cosmic microwave background probe, and it's produced a much more detailed map compared to WMAP.
  • 01:39: It's the frame of reference of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the CMB.
  • 01:49: In all directions, it appears to be the same temperature-- around 2.7 Kelvin-- and hence, the same microwave wavelength.

2017-06-21: Anti-Matter and Quantum Relativity

  • 12:17: ... club on a new paper investigating whether the cold spot in the cosmic microwave background was due to supervoids or a collision with another ...
  • 15:43: Many of you noticed that we misprinted the typical deviation of the cosmic microwave background temperature by a little.
  • 12:17: ... club on a new paper investigating whether the cold spot in the cosmic microwave background was due to supervoids or a collision with another ...
  • 15:43: Many of you noticed that we misprinted the typical deviation of the cosmic microwave background temperature by a little.

2017-06-07: Supervoids vs Colliding Universes!

  • 00:06: If you study a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, you may notice a large deep blue splotch on the lower right.
  • 00:30: Is that giant cold spot in the cosmic microwave background really evidence of a collision with another universe?
  • 01:01: ... explanation for the cold spot was that it was imprinted on the cosmic microwave background radiation as that radiation passed through a giant empty ...
  • 01:33: The Cosmic Microwave Background is everywhere.
  • 01:59: ... and 1/2 billion years of cosmic expansion later, and it stretched to microwave wavelengths, and to a temperature very close to 2.725 Kelvin all across ...
  • 10:01: If that merger point is distant from us, then this looks like a hot or cold spot in the cosmic microwave background.
  • 00:06: If you study a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, you may notice a large deep blue splotch on the lower right.
  • 00:30: Is that giant cold spot in the cosmic microwave background really evidence of a collision with another universe?
  • 01:01: ... explanation for the cold spot was that it was imprinted on the cosmic microwave background radiation as that radiation passed through a giant empty regions of the ...
  • 01:33: The Cosmic Microwave Background is everywhere.
  • 10:01: If that merger point is distant from us, then this looks like a hot or cold spot in the cosmic microwave background.
  • 01:01: ... explanation for the cold spot was that it was imprinted on the cosmic microwave background radiation as that radiation passed through a giant empty regions of the universe, ...
  • 01:59: ... and 1/2 billion years of cosmic expansion later, and it stretched to microwave wavelengths, and to a temperature very close to 2.725 Kelvin all across the ...

2017-04-19: The Oh My God Particle

  • 06:58: Empty space isn't really empty, it's full of low-energy microwave photons leftover from the heat glow of the very earliest of times.
  • 07:06: This is the cosmic microwave background radiation.
  • 06:58: Empty space isn't really empty, it's full of low-energy microwave photons leftover from the heat glow of the very earliest of times.

2017-03-15: Time Crystals!

  • 07:08: They used microwaves to generate oscillations in the spins of nitrogen impurities inside a diamond.
  • 07:27: The diamond [INAUDIBLE] three times the microwave period.
  • 07:08: They used microwaves to generate oscillations in the spins of nitrogen impurities inside a diamond.

2017-01-11: The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?

  • 01:44: A resonant radiation field is induced inside, so microwave standing waves reflecting between the ends.
  • 02:01: These fall under the family of microwave resonant cavity thrusters.
  • 03:50: You're basically running a microwave oven, and so things heat up.
  • 02:01: These fall under the family of microwave resonant cavity thrusters.
  • 01:44: A resonant radiation field is induced inside, so microwave standing waves reflecting between the ends.

2017-01-04: How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer

  • 03:22: EHT could currently detect an orange on the surface of the moon, if oranges were bright in microwaves.

2016-11-09: Did Dark Energy Just Disappear?

  • 09:51: ... about in that episode, we can do this using the patterns in the cosmic microwave background to measure the angles of universe-sized ...

2016-10-12: Black Holes from the Dawn of Time

  • 02:01: The oldest light we can see is the cosmic microwave background radiation.
  • 06:38: ... big primordial black holes would have left their mark on the cosmic microwave ...
  • 02:01: The oldest light we can see is the cosmic microwave background radiation.
  • 06:38: ... big primordial black holes would have left their mark on the cosmic microwave background. ...
  • 02:01: The oldest light we can see is the cosmic microwave background radiation.

2016-06-22: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics

  • 14:06: Prasad Deshmukh and a few others asked, is the cosmic microwave background radiation gravitationally lensed?

2016-05-04: Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?

  • 03:06: ... would be a kilometers-wide carbon fiber mesh sail propelled by a microwave laser-- a maser, which would be focused by a 1,000 kilometer diameter ...

2016-03-30: Pulsar Starquakes Make Fast Radio Bursts? + Challenge Winners!

  • 02:28: How far did the cosmic microwave background photons that we see now have to travel in order to reach us?
  • 03:08: ... universe before the moment of recombination, the moment when the cosmic microwave background was ...
  • 02:28: How far did the cosmic microwave background photons that we see now have to travel in order to reach us?
  • 03:08: ... universe before the moment of recombination, the moment when the cosmic microwave background was ...
  • 02:28: How far did the cosmic microwave background photons that we see now have to travel in order to reach us?

2016-03-23: How Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe

  • 01:10: The cosmic microwave background tells us that they were once close enough together to become perfectly, smoothly mixed.

2016-03-09: Cosmic Microwave Background Challenge

  • 00:05: ... and the most important piece of evidence for this theory is the cosmic microwave background ...

2016-03-02: What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?

  • 05:33: We now see this light as an almost perfectly smooth microwave buzz across the entire sky.

2016-02-24: Why the Big Bang Definitely Happened

  • 04:27: Having been stretched into microwaves as it traveled through an expanding universe, it's the cosmic microwave background.
  • 08:32: Some are also imprinted in the cosmic microwave background, and they may lead us back to the instant of the Big Bang itself.
  • 04:27: Having been stretched into microwaves as it traveled through an expanding universe, it's the cosmic microwave background.
  • 08:32: Some are also imprinted in the cosmic microwave background, and they may lead us back to the instant of the Big Bang itself.
  • 04:27: Having been stretched into microwaves as it traveled through an expanding universe, it's the cosmic microwave background.

2015-10-28: Is The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?

  • 08:01: ... wave detection based on polarization anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation that came out earlier this ...

2015-10-15: 5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel

  • 06:30: 10% light speed is pretty reasonable with modern materials like a carbon web sail driven by a microwave beam running on a single nuclear power plant.

2015-06-17: How to Signal Aliens

  • 01:27: ... array of many radio telescopes sending narrow pulses of high-powered microwaves at frequencies of 10 gigahertz or higher, sweeping the whole sky about ...
  • 02:03: ... while large distances with microwave transmission are possible, it would require a massive ongoing investment ...
  • 02:40: Attenuation from interstellar dust makes the range for optical lasers less than that for microwave beacons.
  • 05:07: So to signal aliens very far away near the galactic center, you'd still need high-powered microwaves.
  • 02:40: Attenuation from interstellar dust makes the range for optical lasers less than that for microwave beacons.
  • 02:03: ... while large distances with microwave transmission are possible, it would require a massive ongoing investment of ...
  • 01:27: ... array of many radio telescopes sending narrow pulses of high-powered microwaves at frequencies of 10 gigahertz or higher, sweeping the whole sky about ...
  • 05:07: So to signal aliens very far away near the galactic center, you'd still need high-powered microwaves.

2015-05-20: The Real Meaning of E=mc²

  • 09:25: ... some things, to set the record straight, that are not NASA spinoffs-- microwave ovens, Tang, Velcro, cordless power tools, the space pen, MRI machines-- ...

2015-04-01: Is the Moon in Majora’s Mask a Black Hole?

  • 07:00: ... next episode of "Space Time." Last week we talked about why the cosmic microwave background once made all of space ...

2015-03-25: Cosmic Microwave Background Explained

  • 00:29: ... no matter how you orient your dish, there's this constant underlying microwave band static that's just always there in the darkness of space, emitting ...
  • 00:50: Problem is, we don't know of any source anywhere that would emit this observed pattern of microwave emission, so where's it coming from?
  • 01:03: ... what if I told you that the source of static, which we call the cosmic microwave background, or CNB, was the process that formed the first atoms in the ...
  • 02:21: ... down to 2.7 degrees above absolute zero, the peak shifts way into microwave wavelengths and, lo and behold, exactly matches the CNB, and I mean ...
  • 04:52: ... billion years of space expansion, all that light has redshifted into the microwave band to become what we today perceive as the ...
  • 01:03: ... what if I told you that the source of static, which we call the cosmic microwave background, or CNB, was the process that formed the first atoms in the universe ...
  • 00:29: ... no matter how you orient your dish, there's this constant underlying microwave band static that's just always there in the darkness of space, emitting the ...
  • 04:52: ... billion years of space expansion, all that light has redshifted into the microwave band to become what we today perceive as the ...
  • 00:29: ... no matter how you orient your dish, there's this constant underlying microwave band static that's just always there in the darkness of space, emitting the same ...
  • 00:50: Problem is, we don't know of any source anywhere that would emit this observed pattern of microwave emission, so where's it coming from?
  • 02:21: ... down to 2.7 degrees above absolute zero, the peak shifts way into microwave wavelengths and, lo and behold, exactly matches the CNB, and I mean ...

2015-02-25: How Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?

  • 03:22: In more extreme cases, the wavelength can be stretched out of the visible spectrum altogether, into microwaves or radio waves.
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