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It all adds up

Nature volume 420, pages 731–732 (2002)Cite this article

The embers of the Universe's primordial fire continue to provide cosmologists with data against which to test their ideas. And the most reassuring news this year has been that their favourite theories seem up to the job.

September saw the release of new results on the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the blanket of microwave radiation that pervades the Universe. The microwave photons that make up the CMB date from just 300,000 years after the Big Bang. By analysing enough of them, cosmologists can detect faint records of conditions in the youthful Universe.

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Brumfiel, G. It all adds up. Nature 420, 731–732 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/420731a

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