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cos·mic mi·crowave back·ground

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  1. cosmic background radiation, CBR, cosmic microwave background radiation, CMBR, cosmic microwave background, CMBnoun

    (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin

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  1. cosmic microwave background

    The Cosmic Microwave Background, often abbreviated as CMB, is the residual radiation from the Big Bang approximately 13.8 billion years ago, which is still detectable today. It is most commonly observed in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum, hence its name, and it appears uniformly distributed throughout the universe. The CMB provides critical information about the early universe such as its age, composition, and development.

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    The numerical value of cosmic microwave background in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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    The numerical value of cosmic microwave background in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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    While the cosmic microwave background tells us about the first 450,000 years after the big bang, the cosmic optical background tells us something about the sum total of all the stars that have ever formed since then, it puts a constraint on the total number of galaxies that have been created, and where they might be in time.

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