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Phys. Rev. Lett. 28, 1669–1671 (1972)

Origin of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in a Chaotic Universe

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M. J. Rees*
Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Received 9 May 1972; published in the issue dated 19 June 1972

If the early universe possessed the maximum degree of irregularity compatible with its present large-scale uniformity and isotropy, dissipation of energy at redshifts z104 would have generated a thermal microwave background with present temperature ∼3°K.

© 1972 The American Physical Society

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.1669
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*On leave from the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, England.