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If one scrutinizes the chances of radiation, such as arises even in the observable part of the cosmos, escaping sufficiently to leave as low a temperature for interstellar matter as the 3.2° A. estimated (or even as the temperature of the earth)—on the supposition that nothing but heat (or re-radiation) is produced—one finds that it cannot possibly do so.
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PARSON, A. The Matter-Radiation Cycle in the Cosmos (and the Second ‘Law’): the Sun's Equilibraum. Nature 160, 906 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160906a0
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