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Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
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Observational History and Discovery
The CMB was first theoretically predicted in the 1940s by George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and Robert Herman, who calculated that the early, opaque universe should have left behind a thermal echo cooling over time [5]. Its accidental discovery occurred in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson (physicist)) at Bell Labs using a high…