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The oldest light remembers everything
The cosmic microwave background was released when the universe was 380,000 years old. Its faint ripples encode the universe’s age, contents and shape. Here is how to read them.
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The cosmic microwave background was released when the universe was 380,000 years old. Its faint ripples encode the universe’s age, contents and shape. Here is how to read them.